How Spotify trolled my friend over his viral cat tweet
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Version 0 of 1. Meet Thom Phipps. just drank a nice orangina Thom is a friend of mine, and the co-writer of BBC comedy Asylum. He also tweets a lot. imagine drinking a pint of mayonnaise A few months ago, Thom tweeted this heartwarming tale. found out last night our cat goes to the kebab shop down the road every day & they give him lamb mince. there's a picture of him on the wall It got a lot of retweets. Then Sam Kriss tweeted the same thing. found out last night our cat goes to the kebab shop down the road every day & they give him lamb mince. there’s a picture of him on the wall It got almost as many retweets. Then everyone else tweeted the same thing. Found out last night our cat goes to the kebab shop down the road every day & they give him lamb mince. there's a picture of him on the wall found out last night our cat goes to the kebab shop down the road every day & they give him lamb mince. there's a picture of him on the wall found out last night our cat goes to the kebab shop down the road every day & they give him lamb mince. there's a picture of him on the wall found out last night our cat goes to the kebab shop down the road every day & they give him lamb mince. there’s a picture of him on the wall Including me. found out last night our cat goes to the kebab shop down the road every day & they give him lamb mince. there's a picture of him on the wall Eventually, it got so bad that another Tom, Tom Whyman, wrote a thinkpiece about how the kebab shop tweet proves that all content is fundamentally inauthentic. Today, Thom realised he is an old man. everybody except me knows the new music i dont even listen to the radio so i have no ideas what the popular bangers of the day are can somebody make me a spotify playlist of the ten songs i should be familliar with And Spotify’s social media team obliged: @thwphipps Hey Thom, we've got what you need: http://t.co/8DVjRCLVLW Except… they weren’t really helping. They were just trolling Thom, like everyone else. Look at the song titles. It turns out, Spotify are old hands at this. Here’s what they sent someone else asking for a playlist of the hits: And here’s what they sent another user: The moral is: don’t use a gif as your avatar on Twitter. |