Wednesday 21 November 2018

What Twitterstorm did we unleash on AI to provoke our blocking?






People will no doubt think that we must have bombarded AI with thousands of tweets to provoke such action. And if not, why not?

Looking back though, we’re disappointed to find that we directed only 13 tweets to @AggregateUK in 2018, and just 9 in 2017. We really should have been trying harder!

Plainly though, that was 22 tweets too many for AI and its social media experts; AI no longer wants to hear anything else from this group, thank you very much.

Some might regard such action from this aggregates giant as churlish – blocking a group that was doing no more than raising genuine concerns from a local community at risk of being impacted by intrusive quarry plans. AI claims:
But we’ve been following things for long enough now to know how hollow that statement is. If communities were important to AI, it would want to keep all social media channels open – not only to hear concerns, but to do something about them.

But "All is fair in love and war" as they say. Twitter is the corporate weapon of choice to push rhetoric and spin. No self-respecting cement conglomerate could have a poxy action group sullying its propaganda. Something we said must have hit home.

Here are a few more of those 13 nasty tweets we sent to @AggregateUK in 2018:



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