Amazon confirms “FC Ambassador” program with at least 16 fulfillment center employees actively responding to tweets that criticize working conditions
Ambassador Carol, of Kent, posted in 16 of the last 24 hours. —Thomas logged on at 7 pm, cruised till a break (?) 3-6 am, and was still going at 10 the next morning. http://www.seattletimes.com/ ... Mike Rosenberg / @byrosenberg : More than a dozens low-level Amazon workers simultaneously created identical Twitter accounts with the sole purpose of going into people's mentions to praise Amazon Amazon won't say if it coordinated the effort or if it's paying the workers extra for PR http://www.seattletimes.com/ ... @om : Russians make bots for Twitter trolling. Americans make bits for marketing. Just new twists on old fashioned propaganda. http://twitter.com/... Rand Fishkin / @randfish : Dear god this is creepy. Who at Amazon could ever think this would be a good idea? http://techcrunch.com/...