Comments on: Express looking at wrong Twitter accounts in BBC attack

By: Ola

Ola — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:52:27 +0000

This is what happens when your initial premise is 'attack the BBC/NHS/unions', and you frame the story round that aim. With bad/overstressed journalists. Who don't understand the medium they are writing about.

I've taken a snapshot of the page that I snatched from google's cache before they remember to take that down too. A slightly squished png image is available from:
https://sites.google.com/site/olasoddbits/home/expresstwits

By: Rob Thijssen

Rob Thijssen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:16:39 +0000

In other news, it was also discovered that these same presenters use mobile phones to send new-fangled technomalogical text messages to each other. The practice, known as texting, is known to be dangerous as it causes people to communicate with each other without the sanction of each individual license payer. In anticipation of the rioting in the streets that our late breaking news is sure to cause, we will be heading back to our hermit cabins where we have no means of dialogue with the outside world.

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links for 2010-01-18 | Metamedia — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:33:15 +0000

[...] Express looking at wrong Twitter accounts in BBC attack » malcolm coles (tags: twitter print) [...]

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:34:13 +0000

Yes, they've pulled it. You can see the google cache here if you want (that'll go soon as well ...)

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:12:02 +0000

Hah - the article doesn't exist any more... they must have realised what muppets they were being.

By: Gareth Molyneux

Gareth Molyneux — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:30:31 +0000

LOL Very nicely said. Typical of the Daily Express journalism.

Let alone... 30 tweets a day... so that amounts to... 15-30 mins a day. Woo hoo...

By: Express confuses followers and following. Ha ha ha! » malcolm coles

Express confuses followers and following. Ha ha ha! » malcolm coles — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:02:14 +0000

[...] pointed out this morning that the Express was talking utter rubbish claiming that the BBC was keeping up twitter accounts with 0 o.... The real numbers were in the tens of [...]

By: Tom Telford

Tom Telford — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:35:44 +0000

Great spot Malcolm.

Worse still, they have disabled any comments on the article.

Worse worse still, they actually use Twitter themselves @Daily_Express so should understand the value it has to a publishing organisation such as the BBC.