{"id":733760,"date":"2010-05-26T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:44:25","slug":"bpglobalpr-calls-the-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/733760","title":{"rendered":"BPGlobalPR Calls The Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Picture-3.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8454\" title=\"Picture 3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Picture-3-300x87.png?resize=196%2C61\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a>BP and its armada of flacks are being outdone <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BPGlobalPR\" >by a lone Twitter account<\/a>: BPGlobalPR, launched shortly after the start of the massive BP oil spill. The Twitter account has garnered about six times more followers than BP America&#8217;s real twitter account. When a lone Twitter account\u00a0 outflanks your in-house flacks and armada of highly paid, self-styled &#8220;crisis managers,&#8221;\u00a0 that&#8217;s a good indication that your PR strategy isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of our favorite Tweets:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-8438\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Picture-16.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8444\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Picture-16.png?resize=503%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Picture-8.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8445\" title=\"Picture 8\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Picture-8.png?resize=465%2C263\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Picture-121.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8446\" title=\"Picture 12\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Picture-121.png?resize=490%2C292\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fake-bp-pr-tweets-2010-5\" >See here, for more tweets from BPGlobalPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/o0tvWwqyB_I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP and its armada of flacks are being outdone by a lone Twitter account: BPGlobalPR, launched shortly after the start of the massive BP oil spill. The Twitter account has garnered about six times more followers than BP America&#8217;s real twitter account. When a lone Twitter account\u00a0 outflanks your in-house flacks and armada of highly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34SQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835314,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733760\/revisions\/835314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}