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AMC Has Twitter Suspend Mad Men Accounts

August 26, 2008 in Branding, Celebrity, Guerilla, Interactive, Marketing With A Twist, PR Nightmares, social media | 5 comments

Twitter and Madmen Equal Fail

Twitter is buzzing with the news that last night the Twitter accounts for Mad Men characters Don Draper (@don_draper) and Peggy Olson (@peggyolson) were taken down. At first the outrage was pointed towards the folks over at Twitter, with reports stating that it was because these accounts fall under their new spam restrictions – The accounts were not real people saying real things (yet all were promoting a similar product).

Twitter employees fired back that it wasn’t their initiative, but rather a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice issued by AMC. Apparently these twitter accounts were NOT all part of a marketing campaign for the show! I will say this, each of the accounts (there’s more than just Don and Peggy on Twitter) seems to have stuck to the character they were portraying. While AMC has the legal right to protect their brand, why ruin a good campaign? Especially one that is free?

Ben Kessler found the rest of the cast who had Twitter accounts and posted them on his blog. They are:

  • Don Draper
  • Peggy Olson
  • Roger Sterling
  • Pete Campbell
  • Joan Holloway
  • Paul Kinsey
  • Sal Romano
  • Bertram Cooper
  • Bobble Barrett

    • and

  • Peggy_Olson?

    • – Apparently a new Peggy Olson account has been created, this time with an underscore in her name. One of her first ‘tweets’ was in regards to the account suspension:

    Peggy_Olson Mad Men Twitter Response

    MG Siegler from VentureBeat was the first to report of the DMCA takedown:

    Twitter has responded back to me on the issue. Apparently it wasn’t a spam issue at all, but rather a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice that Twitter’s support team responded to, co-founder Biz Stone tells me. I guess AMC didn’t like others playing the roll of its Mad Men characters besides the actors who play them on TV.

    I wonder if this was the inspiration for the influx of fake Mad Men accounts (taken from SomeEcards.com):
    mad men greeting card

    I don’t think this is the end of this story….

    UPDATE! Mario Parisé from the StrategicText blog has come forward to reveal that he has been twittering under the Paul Kinsey (@paul_kinsey) account. It is still (as of 12:45pm EST) online. He’s got a great post about it over on his site. Go check it out.

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    Mashups, Stickers, Powncified, and Why CNet.com Sucks – Some Monday Links

    March 24, 2008 in Interactive, PR Nightmares, Random, RSS, social media | Permalink

    Random Links for Monday!

    Here’s a quick round-up of some articles that I’ve found interesting over the weekend –

  • Why Media Executives Are Killing Morale/Asleep At Their Own Wheel – Sam Lawrence talks on his Go Big Always blog about current websites that are supposed to be the so-called “leaders” in the latest tech/web 2.0 news, yet are seemingly against consumer participation – The whole while still touting that they provide “engaging” and “interactive” portals. At least, that’s what they keep telling their advertisers. Engaging is the one trait that they all are in dire need of. Without being able to start a conversation with your consumer, you just become another static news site. Some of the examples used are CNET, ZDNet, and PCWorld – All three of which have solid content but asinine procedures/authentication processes, making any conversation that might have taken place almost a chore. He’s already gotten a few good responses that would be easy to implement yet would provide the user with a more inviting online news source (One being the introduction of OpenID, which would help make any forced site-registration a thing of the past)

  • How I Use Twitter To Promote My Blog – Chris Brogan stepping in as a guest blogger over at ProBlogger.net shares some advice on how twitter has helped make his own blog, www.chrisbrogan.com, a must-have on everyone’s RSS feed aggregator.

  • Free AdSense stickers from Google – Now I don’t know anyone who’d want these, but if you do, act fast… all that’s required is a SASE.

    • also on the same topic:

  • Free Stickers From Laughing Squid – Well, apparently they just ran out of the removable ones, but if you act now you can still get some free vinyl ones, once again, all that’s needed is a SASE.

  • How To Fine-Tune The Volume On Your Mac – The “Secret command” Revealed – Ok, nothing really secret about this, but it is pretty cool. Found at Creativebits.org – Apparently if you hold down Shift + Option while hitting the volume up or down keys (F4 and F5), you have greater control over the actual change in volume… Finally! I can now achieve that “perfect” setting I’ve only dreamed existed.

  • Powncified – The Top 10 “Pownced” Links In The Last 24 Hours – A neat hack by Tom Martin that uses the public Pownce listing API to show the most popular links for the day. This is very similar to http://powncememe.com/ although PownceMeme gives you something Powncified lacks – An RSS feed of its own letting you use its top 10 of the day in your own social-media mashup. PownceMeme was created by Bryan Pearson and it looks like he also uses one of the various API’s that are available to aggregate his posts.

    • And while still in a “mashup” mood there’s this:

  • www.DigAList.com – It’s a Digg.com like service that focuses only on “lists.” They’ve got a huge collection of both external and internal lists, all sorted based on tags (similar to dig) and arranged by popularity/votes. A cool feature is that they allow you to pull feeds from practically every part of their site, similar to what del.icio.us does. For instance I can pull an RSS feed of just the lists that have the tag “Humor” if I wanted to. The site can also be segmented by Channels as well. Great selection of Travel and lifehack lists too.

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    Download The Cult of Mac ebook FREE (and 100% legal too)

    March 22, 2008 in Alternative Advertising, Guerilla, Interactive, Marketing With A Twist, p2p, social media | Permalink

    Cult of Mac and Cult of Ipod

    Following Chris Anderson’s recent experiment with his latest book entitled “Free,” book publisher No Starch Press has released two of their most popular books by Wired news editor Leander Kahney – The Cult of Mac & The Cult of iPod – in full unaltered versions on the infamous p2p torrent site, www.ThePirateBay.org

    Here are brief reviews of both books:
    The Cult of Ipod – Leander Kahney:

    Wired news editor Leander Kahney follows up his bestselling The Cult of Mac with The Cult of iPod, a comprehensive look at how Apple’s hit iPod is changing music, culture, and listening behavior. The Cult of iPod includes the exclusive back story of the iPod’s development; looks at the many ways iPod’s users pay homage to their devices; and investigates the quirkier aspects of iPod culture, such as iPod-jacking (strangers plugging into each other’s iPods to discover new music), as well as the growing legions of MP3Js (regular folks who use their iPods to become DJs).

    The Cult of Mac – Leander Kahney:

    No product on the planet enjoys the devotion of a Macintosh computer. Famously dedicated to their machines, many Mac fans eat, sleep and breathe Macintosh. In The Cult of Mac, Wired News managing editor Leander Kahney takes an in-depth look at Mac users and their unique, creative, and often very funny culture. From people who get Mac tattoos and haircuts, to those who furnish their apartments out of empty Mac boxes, the book details Mac fandom in all of its forms. This paperback edition includes an all-new chapter about the iPod, updates throughout, and new photos that reflect current Apple technology.

    To Download Via BitTorrent or Direct Download:
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