Twitter vigilantes hijack the Daily Mail | Media Money January 9, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , trackbackPeter Kirwan notes a twist on the media's recent obsession with Twitter (forming part of it himself, of course…). He says a majority of the early followers of the spoof Mail account were Guardian journalists: ?"Last weekend, the Mail On Sunday attacked the phenomenon of celebs using Twitter. In response, someone has created a fake dailymail_UK username on the site. The result has been a small avalanche of tweets directed at Britain’s finest mid-market tabloid.
Some of them appear to be mildly satirical…"
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Actually, Jonathan, I suspect I may have got the bit about huge numbers of Guardian hacks wrong. See the subsequent comments on my original post. Apologies for any confusion.
Peter