The Immense Power of Twitter and Facebook and a Couple of Good Fails!

Hi Everyone,

Today I thought we’d have a bit of fun. When you use social media it’s important to remember how far and wide it reaches. MarketMeTweet was built to harness this power, but every once in a while you see a few dingbats using social media in a pretty silly way.

From an article on the Huffington Post:

“After an interview at Cisco Systems, Connor Riley (aka @theconnor) confessed in a tweet that she would hate the job but relish the “fatty paycheck.” When a channel partner advocate for Cisco Alert stumbled across her Twitter account, theconnor’s fate was sealed. ‘Who is the hiring manager,’ the Twitter sleuth wrote. ‘I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the web.’”

“The story became an overnight sensation and earned theconnor the unfortunate nickname “Cisco Fatty” Someone even created a website called CiscoFatty.com”

And who can forget this spectacular fail on facebook?

We look at these things in a positive light though. If it’s powerful enough to get you fired, it’s powerful enough to get you hired, or to get you customers!

~Tammy