Nightmare Continues for BP’s Real PR Team: ‘BP Terry’ Joins Twitter
By Ben Haber
May 27th, 2010
Over the past week the fake BP Twitter account has become quite popular – attracting over 55,000 followers in just over a week. In many of their tweets a fictional character named Terry is mentioned, who can best be described as an epic #fail.
An example of Terry’s adventures: “Cross you fingers and pray for our riskiest operation yet. We sent Terry to get the lunch order.” and “Just found Terry throwing mud at the ocean. You got to love his enthusiasm but I’m starting to think he doesn’t deserve his 700k a year.”
Well, today BPGlobalPR is expanding its Twitter presence, as they have just announced that Terry has joined Twitter as bpTerry.
While this is great news for Twitter users that enjoy a laugh throughout the day, it’s just another dark cloud in BP’s public relations nightmare (it’s also a smart move for the owner of the BPGlobalPR account, in the event that BP attempts to have Twitter terminate the fake account).
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1. RaceTalk | May 27th, 2010 at 7:47 am
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2. Laurel Cormier | May 27th, 2010 at 7:50 am
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3. Jenna Caswell | May 27th, 2010 at 8:11 am
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5. Molly Galler | May 27th, 2010 at 8:21 am
Oh boy. RT @RaceTalk New RaceTalk Post: Nightmare Continues for BP’s Real PR Team: ‘BP Terry’ Joins Twitter http://bit.ly/9IT1vf
6. Lauren Bernardi | May 27th, 2010 at 8:23 am
RT @RaceTalk New RaceTalk Post: Nightmare Continues for BP’s Real PR Team: ‘BP Terry’ Joins Twitter http://bit.ly/9IT1vf
7. Lauren Bernardi | May 27th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
RT @RaceTalk New RaceTalk Post: Nightmare Continues for BP’s Real PR Team: ‘BP Terry’ Joins Twitter http://bit.ly/9IT1vf
8. Anna Julow | June 2nd, 2010 at 4:25 pm
BP's "PR Nightmare" is surprisingly entertaining. Can't help but enjoy @BPGlobalPR & @BPTerry. http://bit.ly/9fWSV5
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