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> Besides OVH having pretty crappy support, it is worth noticing that Oles (the ovh ceo/owner) basically only tweets in French, despites having customers from

by wolfgke 10y ago

> Besides OVH having pretty crappy support, it is worth noticing that Oles (the ovh ceo/owner) basically only tweets in French, despites having customers from all-over the world. This is plain rude. Many US-American companies have customers all-over the world and still only tweet in English.

znpy 10y ago
>> Besides OVH having pretty crappy support, it is worth noticing that Oles (the ovh ceo/owner) basically only tweets in French, despites having customers from all-over the world. This is plain rude. > Many US-American companies have customers all-over the world and still only tweet in English. And this is right. English is the de-facto standard language is business and science. It doesn't matter if your company is french, american, italian, brazilian or something else: you really SHOULD write/tweet in english, at least to your customers/clients.
- lorenzhs 10y ago
  https://twitter.com/OVH https://twitter.com/OVH is in English. @olesovhcom is the founder's semi-personal account where he tweets a lot of company related stuff, but it's not their official channel.
- wolfgke 10y ago
  > It doesn't matter if your company is french, american, italian, brazilian or something else: you really SHOULD write/tweet in english, at least to your customers/clients. I know lots of companies (for example for mechanical engineering in Germany) where the customers strongly prefer it if they are written to in their native language (in this case German). No, really: Some companies learnt it the really hard way why they shouldn't try to advertize in English in Germany, see for example this German article: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/wunderbar/denglisch-in-der-werbung-komm-rein-und-finde-wieder-raus-a-310548.html http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/wunderbar/denglisch-in-der-... (TLDR: The uneducated classes misundertand the slogans in really funny ways).
- jpambrun 10y ago
  The good old "speak white" argument..

by wolfgke 10y ago

znpy 10y ago

>> Besides OVH having pretty crappy support, it is worth noticing that Oles (the ovh ceo/owner) basically only tweets in French, despites having customers from all-over the world. This is plain rude. > Many US-American companies have customers all-over the world and still only tweet in English. And this is right. English is the de-facto standard language is business and science. It doesn't matter if your company is french, american, italian, brazilian or something else: you really SHOULD write/tweet in english, at least to your customers/clients.

lorenzhs 10y ago
https://twitter.com/OVH https://twitter.com/OVH is in English. @olesovhcom is the founder's semi-personal account where he tweets a lot of company related stuff, but it's not their official channel.
wolfgke 10y ago
> It doesn't matter if your company is french, american, italian, brazilian or something else: you really SHOULD write/tweet in english, at least to your customers/clients. I know lots of companies (for example for mechanical engineering in Germany) where the customers strongly prefer it if they are written to in their native language (in this case German). No, really: Some companies learnt it the really hard way why they shouldn't try to advertize in English in Germany, see for example this German article: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/wunderbar/denglisch-in-der-werbung-komm-rein-und-finde-wieder-raus-a-310548.html http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/wunderbar/denglisch-in-der-... (TLDR: The uneducated classes misundertand the slogans in really funny ways).
jpambrun 10y ago
The good old "speak white" argument..