BT - Extremly (sic) Efficient
Below is the details of a survey I filled in on the BT website, having had the misfortune of speaking to one of their technical support staff. Funnily enough, if you click all the negative boxes, they won’t accept your feedback.
So rather than keep it between me and British (although outsourced to any country that we don’t have to pay a fair wage to) Telecom, I thought I’d go down the open letter route.
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Given that Lisa Barone’s doom-laden hyperbole has spread through Twitter faster than a case of the clap, you may well have read that Twitter’s New ReTweet Feature Sucks.
Apparently, the new RT button (that you don’t have to use and have survived without for the past year or so) is the harbinger of the apocalypse. That’s right. War, Death, Famine and Poor ReTweet Functionality are upon us, and the end of days is here.
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photo by Robert Couse-Baker
Twitter’s in the news again. The bloodlust of the Social Media mob hasn’t been sated by the ritual sacrifice of AA Gill and Jan Moir, and they’ve moved on to targeting regular users who dare to speak against our celebrity overlords.
Funnily enough, those paid to disseminate information and opinion have leapt on the “Social Media Bad” bandwagon. Newspaper columnists have been quick to condemn social media as an unruly gang of ravening nutters just waiting to whip out the pitchforks.
Now users of social media sites know that the above isn’t true, but what is the problem with Twitter, Facebook and their ilk? Simple.
You’re doing it wrong.
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photo by Mira66
Remember the days that when Jan Moir, or some other Daily Mail moronic columnist (other right-wing, poorly written trashy tabloids are available) would vomit some bile into a column, and the only thing you could do about it was write an irate letter to the editor?
Thankfully, those days are gone. Thanks to social media, it’s never been easier to round up an angry mob and force newspaper editors to take notice. But does trial by Twitter work?
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