10 deletes “mean tweet” request
10 asked social media for controversial tweets, but the feedback was so bad it hit delete.
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A recent campaign with personalities reading “mean tweets” may have backfired for Network 10 -not because of wha went to air, but because of what will not.
The idea of the campaign was presumably to make light of the worst in social media, which has previously been used around the world as a way of addressing the hate and hopefully reducing it….
But 10 has now deleted a recent tweet in which it asked social media users to send their worst.
“Please quote this tweet with your most controversial Channel 10 opinion, we love controversial Channel 10 opinions” it tweeted yesterday.
Plenty did just that…. about shows, programming, personalities, corporate and public relations. Some of it is too hot to republish here, but this here’s a taste of the feedback….
Same!
Would love to see bold and opinionated trans women, young and old women, fat women, deep-throated LAUGHING women, wildly accomplished women, all the brown and black women, the powerful, the underrepresented… @channel10aus
— Yumi Stynes she/her (@yumichild) November 25, 2019
Stop equating 'youth programming' with dumbed down crap reality shows. Find the Australian talent online and give them the opportunity and time to develop shows. Use diverse casting, put talent ahead of bimbo looks. Film programs outside of Vic/NSW/QLD.
— Jodes (@whoozqueen) November 25, 2019
You should never have axed Cheez TV!
— Thomas Glenn (@ThomasMikeGlenn) November 25, 2019
The project is boring and shouldn’t be on Sundays
— Cara – SAVE THE SOCIETY (@carag99) November 25, 2019
You might just try answering emails, pathetic public relations performance, real sums up why you are tanking feel free to reply
— Hawford Group (@hawford) November 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/reecebca/status/1198926715248107520
Oz-style aerobics would rate the shit out of channel 10’s morning programming
— B (@foodb4peeps) November 25, 2019
How much does Kerri-Anne Kennerley pay you to be on TV?#bin it
— 🏴☠️ (@bradthegunn) November 25, 2019
Channel 10 is the Worst at #Representing Same-Sex Lesbian Relationships on @neighbours. and Moving @neighbours
away from Channel 10 to Peach was the Worst thing that they did and Both need to be Fixed.— Errin Pritchard (@Errin_Joy) November 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/SpikeEcks/status/1198842889725304833
8 Responses
It sounds like they were trying to copy Jimmy Kimmel’s Celebrities read mean tweets segments.
I thought the one with Osher greeting you in Heaven was funny ?
Don’t understand this stupid campaign. Why would you waste expensive airtime with tweets criticizing your network.
I think the ads just encourage all the nasties to write these terrible posts. They crave the attention it gives them. I deleted my Facebook account as it was doing my head in. Human race really sucks a lot of the time (not all of it) .
I deleted Facebook 18 months ago for the same reason, and my mind is now more quiet. I want nothing more to do with social media, unless this site is a form of social media.
Intriguing that on one of these ads Lisa Wilkinson read out a tweet “Lisa should run for PM”. I would’ve thought that is a compliment…
I think the word you are missing there is “sarcasm” ….
“A recent campaign with personalities reading “mean tweets” may have backfired for Network 10 -not because of what went to air, but because of what will not.”
Well I am shocked that this “well thought out idea” backfired.
It is like Channel 10 had never ever seen Twitter in action