Worst Promotional Tweet Ever

Posted by | November 30, 2014 16:00 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Opinion Stuart Shapiro Top Stories

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Malaysian Airlines, which still hasn’t found the plane which disappeared this spring decided to try a new promotional campaign.

“Want to go somewhere but don’t know where?” read the post on Twitter, part of a promotion of special deals by the national carrier

The airline has apologized and deleted the tweet.

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By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.

20 responses to Worst Promotional Tweet Ever

  1. Carla Akins November 30th, 2014 at 16:04

    I’m guessing they didn’t intend it to be as funny as I found it.

  2. Carla Akins November 30th, 2014 at 17:04

    I’m guessing they didn’t intend it to be as funny as I found it.

  3. M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 16:15

    took me a minute…What an odd thing to say even given the circumstances.

    • rg9rts December 1st, 2014 at 04:02

      Don’t know where you are going…neither do we

      • M D Reese December 1st, 2014 at 17:37

        It’s pretty tasteless–or maybe just unfortunate.

  4. M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 17:15

    took me a minute…What an odd thing to say even given the circumstances.

    • rg9rts December 1st, 2014 at 05:02

      Don’t know where you are going…neither do we

      • M D Reese December 1st, 2014 at 18:37

        It’s pretty tasteless–or maybe just unfortunate.

  5. Spirit of America November 30th, 2014 at 16:54

    ‘Lost in translation’ & ‘Taken out of context’ makes the perfect marketing storm…
    They were trying to get folks to look at all the new packages for destinations…
    Ooops.
    Reminds me of Coke & China…

  6. Spirit of America November 30th, 2014 at 17:54

    ‘Lost in translation’ & ‘Taken out of context’ makes the perfect marketing storm…
    They were trying to get folks to look at all the new packages for destinations…
    Ooops.
    Reminds me of Coke & China…

  7. rg9rts December 1st, 2014 at 04:01

    LOL you can’t make this stuff up..

  8. rg9rts December 1st, 2014 at 05:01

    LOL you can’t make this stuff up..

  9. mmaynard119 December 2nd, 2014 at 09:22

    I thought the worst promotional idea was win a dream weekend date with Anomaly to a Christian Mingle relationships conference?

    • edmeyer_able December 2nd, 2014 at 10:12

      Now that’s something I would sign up for, but I can only imagine the line will be a mile long.

  10. mmaynard119 December 2nd, 2014 at 10:22

    I thought the worst promotional idea was win a dream weekend date with Anomaly to a Christian Mingle relationships conference?

    • edmeyer_able December 2nd, 2014 at 11:12

      Now that’s something I would sign up for, but I can only imagine the line will be a mile long.

  11. eyelashviper December 7th, 2014 at 14:43

    Their PR staff must be doing shots of tequila and smoking hookas…

  12. eyelashviper December 7th, 2014 at 15:43

    Their PR staff must be doing shots of tequila and smoking hookas…

  13. John_St_John December 9th, 2014 at 13:08

    “Want to go somewhere but don’t know where?” But, but, but that is the story of my life…

  14. John_St_John December 9th, 2014 at 14:08

    “Want to go somewhere but don’t know where?” But, but, but that is the story of my life…

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