Tweet theft: Idiots ruminating on technology, TalkTalk marketing fails (again) and Twitter's abuse fails

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While the 'smart money' is already starting to bet on the end of cloud (yes, before your organisation has even started migrating to the cloud, Office 365 notwithstanding) other, arguably more knowledgeable people, are more sanguine.

Also not learning any lessons - this time on the danger of tarnished brands advertising on social media - is TalkTalk.

Now, we've had words with TalkTalk in the past about this. What typically happens is that all the disgruntled customers and ex-customers who have been linked with the company, via the magic of Twitter's excellent marketing algorithms, pile in with their tales of woe.

Despite this, the original tweet and all the associated criticisms of the brand (in this case largely justified - it is TalkTalk, after all) are pumped out week after week. It's not so much a marketing campaign as an anti-marketing campaign. #idiots

For example:

Or:

Etcetera.

Perhaps TalkTalk should direct its resources to sorting out the call-centre scams that customers have been plagued with, according to the BBC?

Twitter, meanwhile, is busy burning its own platform by trying just a bit too hard to cut down on so-called trolls while endeavouring to eke out a profit - a fine example to freshly IPO'd Snap.

Just a quick reminder of the kind of thing @Classic_picx gets up to:

And also how Twitter has changed:

Local newspapers are always an excellent place for one to educate oneself on matters of technology, and no local newspaper is better than the Liverpool Echo, who warn that hackers can be as young as eight-years-old! It provides a series of government-approved tips that may give you an early warning that your child is already a hacker:

• They use the language of hacking, with terms such as ‘DDoS' (although this could equally mean that they want to become a computer journalist, which we really wouldn't recommend);
• They have multiple email addresses;
• They have an odd sounding nickname;
• Their computer has a web browser called ToR (because, as everyone knows, anyone who uses ToR is clearly either a child molester or a hacker).

So, err, thanks for that, Liverpool Echo.

Unfortunately, though, it's hit and miss whether your eight-year-old hacker/prodigy has picked up their computing skills at school…

Something similar, perhaps, could be said for the IBM marketers who have been doing a bang-tidy job pimping the company's quantum computing technology.

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And, as it's Monday, let's conclude with this old favourite…