Oops! This random dude may be hardest hit by CVS' cigarette announcement

Posted at 11:12 am on February 5, 2014 by Jenn Taylor

Poor Vivek Venugopalan. We hope he has his text alerts turned off, too.

Poor guy. Just realized EVERYONE is tweeting @cvs and its just a guy, not the pharmacy. #cvs #opps
— Chris Voigt (@chrisvoigt) February 5, 2014

That guy who owns the @cvs handle? His twitter alerts are blowing up right now. There's another one.
— Chuck Jacobson (@chuckiej) February 5, 2014

Poor @cvs is wondering what he did to get all the congrats from people. Pssst, it's @CVS_Extra that stopped selling tobacco, people.
— Ed Bott (@edbott) February 5, 2014

Fortunately, it looks like his account might be abandoned.

@edbott @cvs @CVS_Extra don’t think he cares too much; his last tweet was almost a year ago
— Chris (@CB_27) February 5, 2014

Since so many people use @CVS instead of @CVS_Extra, seems like that handle might be worth a little something to CVS, no?

Here’s a screenshot of his Twitter bio.

Okay, so CVS the drugstore chain was beaten to @cvs by this guy. Not early twitter adopters, I guess. pic.twitter.com/EtYxhE65jA
— David Pinsen (@dpinsen) February 2, 2014

Heh. Not the first time CVS was a little slow. Apparently the company just discovered Obama will give you a health care provider shout-out if you promise to take cigarettes off the shelves.

CVS to stop selling cigarettes alongside ‘60 feet of candy shelves’; Obama waves health pom-poms