Microsoft Twitter fail
I tweeted about the fact Microsoft was running a marketing campaign that gives a web site user a chance at winning ten grand. The catch? You will only be able to use Microsoft IE8. Leaving the obvious user agent switching hacks aside, I was still shocked that Microsoft thought this was in anyway good marketing so I tweeted about it.
Within a few hours, Microsoft’s Twitter account re-tweeted my rant about their ten grand contest. :-O I don’t really know what they were trying to go for here but it certainly had my co-workers and I laughing hard about it. My best explanation for this is that MS had a Twitter bot that scanned all tweets with the word Microsoft. Too bad they didn’t see the word fail right next to it.
I tried to get Microsoft to RT another not-so-flattering message but it didn’t work again. Ah well.
Good ole’ Microsoft. <sigh>
