All Twitter users have the URL: twitter.com/username, so Home’s URL is twitter.com/home

Unfortunately this just redirects to the Twitter homepage. Home has a staggering 35,000 followers – how the hell did it get all those without anyone being able to see its profile? How did Home ever login to their account? Does Home enjoy getting random messages from people who are ‘chillaxin @home’?

I’d like to know who’s behind Home – maybe their friends neo and TomFulp can tell us?

Interestingly, neo is only following Home and Tom Fulp….the plot thickens!

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Not, as one advertiser thought:

No matter how careful you are you can still make mistakes, but this is a great argument for always checking your ads!

This is the second time in just over a month that Pleasure Island have experienced bandwidth difficulties – a sure sign they ought to change their hosting company?

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Why does the company blog fail so badly to interact with visitors?

Why does no one care what a company has to say?

Lack of Personality

Let’s be blunt, most company blogs have all the personality of a tax form. Either they never get past company news (they’ve opened a manufacturing plant in Slough) or they’re stuffed full of shallow, promotional fluff (there’s a new range of side tables!). No-one will read a blog that’s not interesting and most things to do with companies aren’t interesting. Sorry companies – no-one gives a crap what you’re doing.

Neutered Content

Some company blogs are written by employees who get to put their name on stuff – I can think of half a dozen web company blogs off the top of my head where this is the case. The trouble here is that content is neutered. Employees have to toe the party line so any personality and opinions remain firmly in their head – not on the company website. To take an example, it was suggested to someone I know that they write ‘more positive’ pieces in future, and not just use the company blog to slag things off. Being positive might be good for the company image but it lacks honesty and that all-important personality. If you don’t say something outrageous once in a while you’ll never spark a discussion.

People Don’t Like Talking To Companies

Even if you get as far as leaving a comment, who are you leaving it for? The person who wrote the post or the company? Chances are another employee will reply to you, but you weren’t trying to connect with them at all. It’s like ringing up a call centre twice and getting different people each time – there’s no continuity and no connection.

You might also be aware of the fact that your comment will appear on a company blog, so you should really leave a professional reply. If you joke or – god forbid! – swear it’ll probably get deleted. Your comment ends up as bland as the post was.

Competitors Don’t Want To Give You Credence

Company blogs are most likely to be read by people in the same industry – basically, people in competition with each other. If you leave a comment on a personal blog it’s ‘outside work’, but if you leave one on a company blog it suddenly becomes professional. Commenting on your competitor is like saying ‘I think you’re good’ and no-one wants to give their competitors reason to gloat. If you don’t comment on a company blog it’s as if you don’t care they exist.

After all this, are company blogs any good at all? Whilst there are loads of instances of successful ones – status blogs for example – there’s no real connection there. Quite simply, no-one’s listening.

This looks pretty normal until you start counting the legs. And then counting them again. It makes no sense! The thighs aren’t even in the right place – I don’t think these three women were sat near each other at all. Cheats.

Just take a look at her hand. That’s right – three fingers.

Oh my god there’s a hand! If that happened in real life there’d be screaming and heebie jeebies. Then an exorcism.

Hahahaha! Seriously, I could look at this every time I need a giggle.

This man has no bottom! They photoshop women to have pneumatic boobs but they photoshop out a man’s no-no?. No fair!

Forget what I just said. Women suffer too

Images courtesy of Photoshop Disasters. Go and take a look for more photoshop hilarity

I hope their web company’s onto it!