PR Firm Accused Of Setting Up Fake Twitter Account Of Competing Firm
from the really? dept
We’ve all heard about the various fake accounts on Twitter, and even Tony La Russa’s misguided lawsuit over a user who put up a fake profile. However, in what appears to be a slightly more serious case of “brandjacking” on Twitter, the Citizen Media Law Project alerts us to a lawsuit involving two PR firms, with one accused of hijacking the identity of the other on Twitter. While it’s a bit amusing that the PR firm who was hijacked claims its expertise is in brand management and yet didn’t notice that someone else was using its brand on Twitter for two months, the fact that the IP address of whoever signed up for the account came from a competing PR firm suggests questionable intent, and certainly has the potential to be a real trademark issue.
Filed Under: brandjacking, fraud, impersonator, pr firm, trademark, twitter
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Comments on “PR Firm Accused Of Setting Up Fake Twitter Account Of Competing Firm”
One question
Who do you(mike) support on this issue and what do you think THINK the verdict should be?
Re: One question
Mike won’t express such a specific opinion. It doesn’t leave him wiggle room later.
Re: Re: One question
Why do I get this feeling in my belly that both of these cowards are the same coward?
Re: Re: Re: One question
He should feel flattered that he has his very own Troll Club.
Re: Re: Re: One question
Nope, sorry, two different Anonymi.
Re: Re: Re:2 One question
wow, this reply totally makes me believe you. NOT.
Re: Re: Re: One question
I forgot to login before posting my question (i.e. I am the author of first post).
I think it was a valid question as this is a fairly complex issue.
BTW, why does questioning/opposing mikes view should always amount to trolling?
Re: One question
Who do you(mike) support on this issue and what do you think THINK the verdict should be?
From the facts given, it sure looks like a classic trademark infringement situation (i.e., people would be confused). But I didn’t think that part was all that interesting, which is why I didn’t discuss it. I just found it interesting that a company would mimic a competitor on Twitter.
Not sure what the other anon person is complaining about. I’ve never been shy about stating my opinions.
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You are only shy about stating your absolute position on things. Slippery as always.
“From the facts given, it sure looks like a classic trademark infringement situation (i.e., people would be confused). But I didn’t think that part was all that interesting, which is why I didn’t discuss it. I just found it interesting that a company would mimic a competitor on Twitter.”
Even at that, you can’t say anything definte, you just get slippery and deflect. Congrats.
Simple Solution
Contact Twitter and inform them of the problem.
Somehow I doubt this has happened, more likely the first thing done was lawyer up
chirp chirp go the crickets.
I am the AC #2 here. Notice that Mike has totally ignored this thread? I wonder why? Maybe he doesn’t want to get pinned down by actually putting HIS opinion in black and white.