Hoax Of The Year: BP's PR Twitter Page
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May 25 2010, 7:05 AM
BP is still trying to contain a horrendous oil spill that started 33 days ago off the
Gulf of Mexico with an explosion and subsequent fire on
the drilling
rig Deepwater Horizon, killing 11
workers. Since April 20th, every effort to contain said spill has been epic fail as oil has been
pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out
undersea well at a rate of at least 210,000 gallons per day.
Staring on May 19th, mysterious tweets began to pop up from a quietly created source claiming to be BP Public Relations with their bio stating "This page exists to get BP's message and mission
statement out into the twitterverse!"
And boy, are they EVER...Holy S*&t, folks. HILARIOUS.
With tweets like: "Oh man, this whole time we've been trying to stop
SEAWATER from gushing into our OIL. Stupid Terry was holding the
diagram upside down."; "I'm sorry, are people mad at us for drilling in
the ocean?!? Maybe God shouldn't have put oil there in the first place. DUH. #bpcares"; and "The good news: Mermaids are real. The bad news:
They are now extinct. #bpcares"; the site has racked up 16,745 followers and 1 million in laughs.
At first I thought, "ah, hacker," until I looked at who they were following. I kinda doubt BP would be hip enough to be following awesome people like Neil Hamburger, Korean Celt and Nick Kroll, or cool grindhouse theatres like the New Beverly Cinema.
Don't care, still hilarious.
My personal favorite: "Jelly beans,
roller coasters, pizza and trampolines. Without oil, none of these
would exist. Just something to think about. #prayforBP"
It's only a matter of time before the REAL BP pr chokes the life out
of this page and kills it, but until then, you should TOTALLY follow them. Rare to find a Twitter page where every tweet elicits some
kind of reaction.
Whoever you are, I think I love you. Well done.
BP is still trying to contain a horrendous oil spill that started 33 days ago off the
Gulf of Mexico with an explosion and subsequent fire on
the drilling
rig Deepwater Horizon, killing 11
workers. Since April 20th, every effort to contain said spill has been epic fail as oil has been
pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out
undersea well at a rate of at least 210,000 gallons per day.
Staring on May 19th, mysterious tweets began to pop up from a quietly created source claiming to be BP Public Relations with their bio stating "This page exists to get BP's message and mission
statement out into the twitterverse!"
And boy, are they EVER...Holy S*&t, folks. HILARIOUS.
With tweets like: "Oh man, this whole time we've been trying to stop SEAWATER from gushing into our OIL. Stupid Terry was holding the diagram upside down."; "I'm sorry, are people mad at us for drilling in the ocean?!? Maybe God shouldn't have put oil there in the first place. DUH. #bpcares"; and "The good news: Mermaids are real. The bad news: They are now extinct. #bpcares"; the site has racked up 16,745 followers and 1 million in laughs.
At first I thought, "ah, hacker," until I looked at who they were following. I kinda doubt BP would be hip enough to be following awesome people like Neil Hamburger, Korean Celt and Nick Kroll, or cool grindhouse theatres like the New Beverly Cinema.
Don't care, still hilarious.
My personal favorite: "Jelly beans,
roller coasters, pizza and trampolines. Without oil, none of these
would exist. Just something to think about. #prayforBP"
It's only a matter of time before the REAL BP pr chokes the life out of this page and kills it, but until then, you should TOTALLY follow them. Rare to find a Twitter page where every tweet elicits some kind of reaction.
Whoever you are, I think I love you. Well done.
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