Daily Mail close down Twitter parody
Saw this yesterday written by @jemimakiss.
It seems that Twitter have caved into legal pressure from the Daily Mail and closed down a Daily Mail parody account on Twitter; NotDailyMail_UK. I urge you to read the full article here but here are a couple of juicy snippets:
Further proof, if we needed it, that the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has no sense of humour. Some wag created the inevitable spoof account for the Mail on Twitter, which resulted in various diverting tweets including: ”God bless Prince Harry! He’s only saying what we’re all thinking…” and ”@maggiethatcherUK How DARE you impersonate Britain’s greatest ever Prime Minister? Is Twitter full of fakes and boring gits?”….
… But no sooner had the fun began than the account name DailyMail_UK was cruelly snatched away and replaced with NotDailyMail_UK. The Daily Mail and General Trust lawyers had emailed Twitter complaining, according to Twitter’s response, prompting them to change the login name and password without warning.
The mystery Twitterer said he created the account in response to “a pathetic and rather lacklustre piece of ‘journalism’ in the Daily Mail”, so it is really surprising it didn’t happen before. Particularly when you take a peek at the official Mail Twitter feed which spews out headlines all day without actually attempting to engage with anybody in the manner of, oh, I don’t know - a social media tool?
I really don’t like the Daily Mail one little bit and their latest bully-boy tactics of shutting down a genuinely funny parody on Twitter just strengthens my (low) opinion of them.
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It’s called the daily wail on another forum I use. And is regularly mentioned for it’s sensationalist headlines.
Which comedian was it that said something like “Aliens ate my princess diana’s house prices” as the standard headline?
I read about this yesterday, and agree with you - its ridiculous! I always think with things like this, by not accepting a bit of gentle and fun mickey taking, they’re making themsleves look even worse!!!!
I guess the good thing to come out of it is all the reporting from other sites about what the Mail has done, so even more people actually know all about it now than origianlly would have done!
Bad news for my idea of parodying them at dailymail dot org dot uk which strangely enough was available until I regged it a few months ago.
i don’t know about daily mail.. but most of the news twitter spamming the environment.