BP Asks @BPGlobalPR Twitter Account to Clearly Label Itself as Fake
BP Asks @BPGlobalPR Twitter Account to Clearly Label Itself as Fake
Posted 06/09/2010 at 2:02pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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For the last few weeks, all of Twitter has been laughing along with the @BPGlobalPR account as they cut BP to shreds with their dry wit. Twitter has a policy of allowing parody accounts to continue, but will take action if there is genuine confusion. Apparently BP (the real BP) thinks there might be some confusion. The @BPGlobalPR account posted yesterday, "Not sure what we've done wrong, but we've been asked to change our name/profile to indicate that we're 'fake."
Twitter confirmed that BP did ask for the change. "BP requested that the account holder be asked to comply with Twitter's guidelines regarding parody," said Twitter's Sean Garrett. Twitter often asks that popular parody accounts add words like 'fake' to their name to avoid confusion. The new Bio on the Twitter page says, "We are not associated with Beyond Petroleum, the company that has been destroying the Gulf of Mexico for 51 days."
Sources indicate BP is unlikely to try to have the account shut down. At this point, @BPGlobalPR may have become too popular. It currently has an order of magnitude more followers than the real BP.
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AliceS
January 26, 2011 at 3:31am
As though Twitter is powerful and hge social network, reading by millions of people, I do not think BP should worry about some account with it's name and bad comments over there. Could their reputation among common people be worse? Agree with post, says that they do have some more important things to do. Are there not enough problems in people's life, less of money, because of this we use to appeal to http://consolidatedebtsloans.com/debt-consolidators/ they just add a huge another one.
HelenK
November 18, 2010 at 4:12am
Twitter is a great social network that opens a number of opportunities for communication and sharing one's thoughts. Bp was just afraid of the blaming comments towards them as for the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused by them and, therefore, they asked to change their profile. Doesn't it look a bit awkward for you? They would better admit their mistake and clean up the mess they've done instead of hiding. A lot of people suffer from the consequences of this oil spill and many of them apply for instant bad credit loans in order to settle their financial difficulties.
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Kennilyn
June 18, 2010 at 8:44pm
Angles of the story want to show that there is something that we have to
know behind the story. The salary CEO's make does not matter to me,
except when they're committing unlawful acts to get a lot more. People
at this time are bringing into question the $5 million Tony Hayward made
the last fiscal year. That isn't truly lots of cash in comparison to
numerous CEO's of many major corporations. CEO's pay is definitely much
larger than their workers and in comparison $5 million is not a lot. No
CEO most likely needs a small unsecured
loan at their earnings, but that is among the reasons individuals
fight to climb up that food chain. I know we all have been criticizing
BP, and with justification, but come on let's not start a fight where
there really shouldn't be one.
Lummoxx
June 10, 2010 at 4:09am
These BP employees worried about this, don't they have something more important to do?
Oh, like strapping on some hip waders and heading to the Gulf coast to help pick up oil?
You know, something USEFUL.
Red_herring
June 09, 2010 at 5:36pm
I always thought it was British Petroleum. Did they change sometime recently?
thesmilies
June 09, 2010 at 7:07pm
Beyond Petroleum is just their tagline.
BP still stands for British Petroleum
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