Ah, the corporate Twitter account. So little upside for companies, so much potential risk. Risk for the companies, that is. For the rest of us, they offer amazing opportunities for the craziness that is seeing a social-media manager at a fast-food company lose his or her job in the greatest possible way. Today was one such instance, thanks to some brave soul at McDonald's, who decided to grab a giant megaphone from one of the world's largest corporations and say this:
Now, of course McDonald's was quick to claim their account was hacked, because of course. That's what everyone does in these situations.
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But here's the thing: I'm choosing not to believe that. I'm choosing to believe this was the work of someone who was losing his or her damn mind tweeting bullshit about shakes and burgers while America gorged on McNuggets. I mean, wouldn't you go crazy if you had to tweet fucking slop like this:
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Imagine that was your job. Imagine you spent every day spitting out focus-group nonsense about burgers being "bae," while Donald Trump is threatening the civil rights of Muslims.
Imagine you watch as day after day, more and more Russia connections are exposed in the Trump White House, but your job is to use a Twitter account that reaches 3.39 million people to say this:
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The only reasonable thing to do in that situation is to quit your job in a blaze of patriotic glory. Now we just need to get Burger King to comment on Trump's budget. Then again, it's easy for Burger King to throw stones. An absolute monarchy is so much easier to navigate than a representative democracy.
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