{"id":41456,"date":"2013-09-03T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=41456"},"modified":"2013-09-03T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:49:56","slug":"angry-ba-passenger-buys-promoted-tweets-to-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/angry-ba-passenger-buys-promoted-tweets-to-complain\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry BA passenger buys tweets to complain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41471\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cloudsurfer_UK-250x178.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Courtesy: Cloudsurfer UK\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41471\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Cloudsurfer UK<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2018If your goal is to\u00a0<strong>drive a particular action via Twitter<\/strong>, Promoted Tweets are a great place to promote engaging content that includes a call to action to users.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This is how Twitter defines its self-service advertising platform of Promoted Tweets, but it seems one user has taken the definition quite literally by buying the service only to launch a tirade of criticism and complaints against British Airways, the airline that lost his luggage.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan Syed who goes by the Twitter handle @HVSVN is any brand&#8217;s PR nightmare as he continues to tweet posts and pictures mocking the airline\u2019s service and efficiency, and vows to continue posting the ads until his bags are found and returned.<\/p>\n<p>BA apologised this morning but Syed only belittled the airline further for not having a 24-hour social media support in place.<\/p>\n<p>Syed, who is the president of Salon Commodities, a boutique manufacturer of personal care products in Illinois, America, is a perfect example of the new age customer, and the power of social media.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick look at what @HVSVN has paid to tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritishAirways\">@BritishAirways<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/British_Airways\">@British_Airways<\/a> is the worst airline ever. Lost my luggage &amp; can&#8217;t even track it down. Absolutely pathetic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23britishairways&#038;src=hash\">#britishairways<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u008d (@HVSVN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HVSVN\/statuses\/374675061833097216\">September 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rubigodi\">@rubigodi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritishAirways\">@BritishAirways<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/British_Airways\">@British_Airways<\/a> Yes. I&#8217;m promoting my tweets to all BA followers since their Customer Service is horrendous.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u008d (@HVSVN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HVSVN\/statuses\/374681644688343040\">September 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattb3012\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HVSVN\">@HVSVN<\/a> Sorry for the delay in responding, our twitter feed is open 0900-1700 GMT. Please DM your baggage ref and we&#8217;ll look into this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 British Airways (@British_Airways) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/British_Airways\/statuses\/374802979662331904\">September 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"&quot;\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<!--mep-nl--\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/British_Airways\">@British_Airways<\/a> how does a billion dollar corp only have 9-5 social media support for a business that operates 24\/7? DM me yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u008d (@HVSVN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HVSVN\/statuses\/374804073339297792\">September 3, 2013<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/script><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/British_Airways\">@British_Airways<\/a> how does a billion dollar corp only have 9-5 social media support for a business that operates 24\/7? DM me yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u008d (@HVSVN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HVSVN\/statuses\/374804073339297792\">September 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018If your goal is to\u00a0drive a particular action via Twitter, Promoted Tweets are a great place to promote engaging content that includes a call to action to users.\u2019 This is how Twitter defines its self-service &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":41475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3484,502,7272,3530,3531,3643,3680,4949,5741],"tags":[4869,5001,75,77,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}