Hey, it’s hard out there for a PC-pimp.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/372372959383392257
But some AP followers think hustling for the highest OMG Big Pharma bidder!!11! is just too much.
Welcome to GERD City. Better ask your doctor if Nexium® is right for you!
@AP really? AP selling reflux medicine? Though you only sold out to the liberals
— labluedoo (@labluedoo) August 27, 2013
Do I have to start blocking you? @AP: Sponsored Tweet:
— Pimp Grimace (@BlatherNBombast) August 27, 2013
@AP did AstraZeneca just hijack the AP twitter account? or has news been officially sold?
— kernicus (@kernicus) August 27, 2013
https://twitter.com/JamesDDetroit/status/372374476060495872
This is what’s wrong with journalism today RT @AP: Sponsored Tweet: Do you experience persistent heartburn? Learn about #GERD at […]
— Remco Brink (@nilicule) August 27, 2013
Perhaps these guys missed the ads that run on AP’s official website? “BREAKING” news doesn’t pay for itself, you know.
Others guessed the sponsored tweet was a hacker’s work.
https://twitter.com/seenigel/status/372375341219577856
Has AP been hacked again or is this a thing now? MT @ap Sponsored Tweet: Do you experience persistent heartburn? Learn at (link removed)
— Ryan MacLeod (@CTVRyan) August 27, 2013
@AP Have you been hacked?
— Jane McManus (@janesports) August 27, 2013
Unlikely. The Associated Press announced earlier this year that it would collect revenue from sponsored tweets.
What do you think? AP spam or a necessary evolution of the dino-media business model?