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Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Barry Collins
Cash Gordon proves Tories need Twitter lessons
God bless the Tories, and their attempts to be the Web 2.0 wonderkids, with WebCameron, iPhone apps and their latest digital venture – a social-media attack on the Prime Minister called Cash Gordon.
This “campaign” urges you to spread the word about the Prime Minister’s close links with the Unions (this is news, apparently), using Facebook and Twitter to spread the poison.
And just to prove they’re really living on the bleeding edge of web technology, they’ve incorporated a Twitter feed directly on the homepage that publishes any tweet – yes, any tweet – using the #cashgordon hashtag. With rather predictable results…
When will these people learn?
UPDATE AT 2:32PM: It now appears the Cash Gordon site has been redirected to a story on the Conservatives’ homepage. It seems they learn fast.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 2:08 pm
I think the Cash Gordon has been hacked, it redirects to the Labour ‘fail for all’ website.
March 22nd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Wait, it did, now it just doesn’t work.
And that ‘fail’ was a typo, honest!
March 22nd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
It was the html and java embedding that was the major problem! Lots of NSFW pics and page redircts (such as to the Labour website amongst others *much* less savoury). It ended up being like a tour of internet shocksites from one URL!
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahah
it couldn’t have happened to a nicer party .
If you are going to jump on the band wagon you had better be prepared for the consequences. Like a certain Homophobic journalist we all know about .
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Even un-hacked, the underlying concept was pretty weak: http://bit.ly/9S6JqM