Posted on 11/11/2014 2:38:02 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
They say that the key to good brand humor is the sweet spot between the benign and the totally inappropriate. So late Sunday night, @CrunchMX — the Mexican Twitter account for Nestle’s Crunch candy bar — made a go of it:
“A los de Ayotzinapa les dieron Crunch,” the account tweeted, a little pun on its namesake candy bar. Translation? “They crunched those from Ayotzinapa.”
… “Those from Ayotzinapa” being the 43 trainee teachers who were apparently abducted, killed incinerated and ground up by a local drug gang in late September, and whose disappearance has sparked a national outcry.
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In the think before you tweet category.
Why do “brands” even have Twitter accounts?
Bad taste.
Advertisement. A more important question is “Why does Obama have one?”
Would you buy anything recommended on Twitter? If so, why?
Nova.
Well, most companies have Twitter accounts, so it would be hard not to buy something recommended by someone on Twitter. Would I buy something solely because the company has a Twitter account? No. But other people probably would.
No es muy divertido. (not very funny).
Hacking happens.
I’ve seen those lit up road signs hacked to display very inappropriate messages to the public. You can’t even believe what you’re seeing as you whizz past it. Nor can you forget it.
Although I dont have a Twitter account, it would not bother me to receive tweets from companies as long as I find what they tweet relevant to my interests.
Probably hacked by Oscar Meyer.
Do they do dead baby jokes to sell baby formula?
I understand the outrage.
We don't know that they were crunched.
They may have simply been shot.
Or anything else.. sloppy assed reporting for sure.
I used to work for a similar company with 100,000 employees.
During a discussion about rigid quality and control rules, I remember the CEO saying: “with that many people, somebody, somewhere is going to be doing something really stupid.”
A little off topic, but what motive could the drug gangs have to murder these particular people?
From what I have read these students were commie wannabe thugs. They often stole, vandalized, and otherwise harassed businesses. Amongst other things they were in the habbit of commandering public busses, forcing off people trying to get home or work or wherever. I appears the little commies finally stepped on the toes of businesses owned by someone less civilized than the captalists they claim are so oppressive.
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