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Amazon Pays ‘Creepy’ Twitter Accounts to Say Nice Things About Company
Breitbart Tech ^ | 8/24/18 | Charlie Nash

Posted on 08/25/2018 4:27:03 AM PDT by markomalley

Amazon has confirmed it’s paying employees to say good things about working for the company on Twitter in an effort to combat bad press about work  conditions in its warehouses.

Several Twitter users discovered the accounts, which are almost identical looking except for the picture, and presumed they were bots before Amazon confirmed they were real employees.


(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: amazon; astroturf; districtofcolumbia; jefffbezos; twitter; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
I'm absolutely positive that this is not the exception, but the rule.
1 posted on 08/25/2018 4:27:03 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

I’m sure the people who run Twits will
ban Amazon....


2 posted on 08/25/2018 4:37:39 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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Why does this not surprise me in the least?

Kinda like buying a newspaper to get your globalist/DemonRat slave owner message out to the masses?

3 posted on 08/25/2018 4:51:55 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: markomalley

Twitter is still a thing?


4 posted on 08/25/2018 4:56:33 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: markomalley

I don’t see anything wrong with this. Reading the post they are real comments. And believe it or not there actually are some employees that are happy to work at their workplaces.


5 posted on 08/25/2018 5:06:33 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

They are PAID to shill for Amazon


6 posted on 08/25/2018 5:11:47 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: markomalley

Buy from overstock.com. No need to buy from Amazon.

The founder of overstock.com is a patriot.


7 posted on 08/25/2018 5:34:35 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: over3Owithabrain

You don’t know the meaning of the word shill.


8 posted on 08/25/2018 5:36:53 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: markomalley

So everything on the internet isn’t true? And everyone on the internet may not be who they represent themselves to be?

Huh.


9 posted on 08/25/2018 5:40:21 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: markomalley

I wonder who is paying the unrelenting negative comments on President Trump’s twitter account


10 posted on 08/25/2018 5:48:52 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: markomalley

Amazon SMILE accounts.... WHERE IS THE DONATION GOING ??


11 posted on 08/25/2018 6:09:17 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: over3Owithabrain

They’re employees that do things other than write comments on Twitter. They probably get a bonus or something for every positive comment they make what is wrong with that?


12 posted on 08/25/2018 6:48:16 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: markomalley

Mental Floss does it. Sick of them being shills for Bezos.


13 posted on 08/25/2018 6:54:31 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: over3Owithabrain
They are PAID to shill for Amazon.

In other words, they are paid to LIE for Amazon.

14 posted on 08/25/2018 8:12:29 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: markomalley

It is called, “Internet Opinion Management”.
You pay a firm, usually in DC, that runs thousands of AI bots on hundreds of Internet forums to say good things about you, creating the impression that consumer views of your company are overwhelmingly positive.

Pioneered by the Left during the 2004 election cycle, this went mainstream a decade ago.


15 posted on 08/25/2018 8:20:27 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Westbrook

I ordered two plumbing items from overstock.com (approx $120 in value), received the items quickly, realized I’d ordered the wrong items, called their contact number for return directions...phone was answered by a human almost immediately. No argument about the return, just pure and simple help. I will use them again.


16 posted on 08/25/2018 8:22:36 AM PDT by moovova
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To: markomalley

You see it all the time in comments. Be it a product that is getting lots of complaints but one that says it is the best thing ever to comments about any story. The sugary comment stands out.


17 posted on 08/25/2018 11:26:24 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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