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Friday Flashback: Q+A’s most troublesome tweets

Back in 2012 one live tweet caused headaches for ABC. This week it closed its Q+A account.

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With the end of the stand-alone Q+A Twitter account this week, I’m reminded of some of the show’s more ‘memorable’ tweets.

In 2012 this live tweet created headaches: “Mining is more important than democracy in Australia.”

Fairly harmless stuff.

But the Twitter ID was a lot worse….. the offensively worded ‘smell_mike_hunt’ (it’s a lot worse when you say it out loud).

In 2011 ABC apologised for airing the tweet: “Just me or does (Christopher) Pyne light up when he’s talking about men in uniform?”

In 2013 a panel discussing “hook-up” apps saw a tweet that “Rex Hunt is a fan of hook-up culture” which ABC later claimed was referring to his fishing interest. Another tweet suggested many of the senior panel should all be in bed.

In 2015 it apologised for screening a tweet from the account ‘AbbottLovesAnal.’

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  1. I miss the good old days of Q&A when it was more balanced, it lost its way the last few years and given current ratings will likely end this year.
    I can it the good old days cause up till about 2017 it was much watch viewing in our household now don’t even bother.

  3. I also noted the 2015 Q&A tweet account mentioned in the last sentence, but as it seemed to match the standard of political debate happening at that time, it didn’t distract me at all.

  4. Even though some IDs on socials can be offensive….some are ingenious and makes you wonder about the personal who comes up with them…I’ve had some real doozy to some replies ….but then it takes a lot to offend me…I find YouTube is the biggest offender because they rarely do anything about some IDs or the comments if you report them….ABC could do better on the Live Chat for Q&A on YouTube because some IDs aren’t just toxic the comments are as well.

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