Mediaphyter - A Communications Cocktail

The Onion is everyone’s favorite dry humor rag. The Onion, however, is not currently everyone’s favorite Twitter friend. While implementing the cool auto-add + auto-reply feature on TweetLater the owners of The Onion’s Twitter feed neglected to do one very important thing: select private message.

Exhibit A: Why I (and others) Have Temporarily Unfollowed The Onion

Exhibit B: How Simple It Would Be to Get Us Back

Any questions?

Update: The Onion seems to have addressed the issue, with it’s latest tweet reading: “apologies 4 the tweet onslaught. the intern responsible has been flogged mercilessly & forced 2 use a landline 4 the rest of his days.” Poor intern.

Oh, and I’m now following The Onion again.