6. BP Public Relations
In so many ways, the BP Public Relations Twitter was one of the first to spark the idea for many more fake accounts. Legitimately, as you first get to their feed, you might be convinced that its real.
The design is clean and official looking and the logo and font are the same as the real company (which always made me wonder how they werent getting sued). A few tweets in, however, youll realize that this is a satire as thick and dense as oil itself.
BP made some pretty ridiculous choices after their giant fuck-up, and all of them are captured perfectly through their fake PR Twitter: ''If we had a dollar for every complaint about this oil spill, it wouldn't compare to our current fortune. Oil is a lucrative industry!''
Or a lesson in semantics: Catastrophe is a strong word, let's all agree to call it a whoopsie daisy. Though at the heart of this Twitter account there is an outcry against corporate injustice, we can't help but laugh anyway. There will always be humor in the hash tag #bpcares.
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Author: Dayna Evans