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I used to work at Realm (the mobile database company). In order to keep an eye on what was going on, there was a Slack integration that reposted any mention of
by slau 3y ago
I used to work at Realm (the mobile database company). In order to keep an eye on what was going on, there was a Slack integration that reposted any mention of @realm on Twitter.
One morning, we woke up to a #twitter channel full of very nearly porn. Young men, scantily dressed, flexing their abs and flashing smiles at the camera.
Turns out someone added a bot on Twitter that would repost things from Instagram to Twitter, except that Instagram allows dots in usernames and Twitter didn’t. I think the IG account was @realm.of.beauty, which was promptly understood by Twitter as @realm.
- hinkley 3y ago[flagged]
- lambdas 3y agoWe had something similar. Public board that went by an acronym that was also used in gay paddling fetish. You’d be scrolling through hashtags/mentions of us and occasionally be greeted by some young actor being coquettishly tapped on the bare bum with a cricket bat or something.
- varispeed 3y ago> tapped on the bare bum That's a kind of public board too...
- cmg 3y agoI'm also @cmg on Twitter, which used to get plenty of Instagram mentions of this type, as well as people thinking I'm CheckMate Gaming, Canadian Media Guild, Cocaine Muzik Group, Chipotle Mexican Grill and all sorts of wild stuff.
- mrtranscendence 3y agoI have @CommonFirstNameCommonLastName on Twitter, and I occasionally get mentioned or DMed by people thinking of an entirely different person. It’s not often enough to be too annoying, though.
- naikrovek 3y agoI get that at work. looking at my name, you would not think it common, but where I live, not only is it common, there are many of us with the same name at my employer.