Telstra: Our fake Stephen Conroy won’t lose his job
Telstra has reacted to the revelation that Twitter’s Fake Stephen Conroy is employed by the telco, by putting up a blog posting explaining its position.
Rather than issuing a press release, Telstra’s Mike Hickinbotham – the company’s senior adviser on social media – has posted a message on his The Scrum blog, which is part of the company’s Now We Are Talking site.
As Mumbrella reported earlier today, the much-discussed Fake Stephen Conroy – who was outspoken in highlighting what he presented as the government’s cluelessness over digital issues including Internet filtering – was revealed as Telstra employee Leslie Nassar.
But with speculation that the Twitter profile had been deleted – it disappeared for several hours today – Hickinbotham has posted a message headed “The real facts about Telstra and the fake Stephen Conroy”.
So no Telstra employee can have a “popular” Twitter account unless they are a selected spokseperson?
And they are going to “train” staff in social media?
The Catholic Church shows us how Telstra will train on social media:
“This is your social media. If you touch it, you will go blind.”
@Zac, yes and no, no one can have a account talking s… about a delicate jurassic industry worth billions of dollars.
Zac, you know I like you very much, but don’t jump in conclusions, it’s silly.
Lucio