You guys! I’m beginning to suspect that the Twitter feeds for some of the Mad Men characters aren’t real. Liiiiiiike, Don Draper would never alert anyone he was "Running late to the Friday morning account review meeting" — because it’s his latest secretary’s job to manage people’s expectations of him, for him. Duh. And Peggy Olsen would never repeat a word, especially the word "like" ("I’m back. And I feel like like the new girl at Sterling Cooper.") I mean why would a junior copywriter not bother to copy-edit her own tweets? I don’t know. Something is fishy. I just don’t think they’re really the ones writing these. And we all remember Joan saying an iPhone really doesn’t match any of her outfits. What is going on?!
Ha. Or not. To sum up, AMC’s hot-and-cold mismanagement of the Mad Men Twitter accounts (they temporarily shut them down, then said fine, do our marketing job for us) brilliantly mirrors the way Sterling Cooper handles its own clients. They’re well intentioned, but painfully behind the curve of modern media. It’s perfect.
Well played, bored AMC exec who’s about to type "Who wears short shorts? I wear short shorts!" into the Pete Campbell account he’s running out of a minimized browser window. Well played.
Oh, and you can call me Bobbie from now on.
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I almost just lost my crush on Don Draper because of that picture of him behind the computer… I said ‘almost’. LOVED the dig on Pete’s shorts last week
Ah yes a show set in the early sixties with a marketing campaign where the charecters are using early 21st century tech & lingo. Weird.
Twitter is very cool and will catch on. It’s a ‘chatterbox’ thing really. I would guess most of the comments left are real and some, of course, will be just for fun. But why not? I’d rather twitter than witter – wouldn’t you? I left a comment saying “This week I’ve mainly being giving myself a Brazilian.” Actually I am writing a book. But what is more interesting – I ask you!
I’ve put up a bunch of “Mad Men” MP3s here: http://www.entertonement.com/collections/2186/Mad-Men
Definitely a missed opportunity for A&E! http://takemetoyourleader.com/2008/08/27/the-mad-men-twitter-fiasco-an-opportunity-squandered/
Definitely a missed opportunity for AMC.
http://takemetoyourleader.com/2008/08/27/the-mad-men-twitter-fiasco-an-opportunity-squandered/
What’s a Twitter?
Just glad to see any promotion for Mad Men. Has anyone seen Jon Hamm on the cover of the new Best Life? Holy cow.
…MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmad for Don Draper-holy sexy cow. Where can I go to find out the latest of this season?
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