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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by savrajsingh on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:34PM (#20711963)
I believe this article was triggered by this tweet: https://twitter.com/rulesobeyer/status/1161820065773182976?s...
Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by komali2 on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:00AM (#20712315)
That's like a god damned parody. A new response every time from a happy smiling human face. It's ok, Diana, we just want the truth to be heard, Diana, why don't you believe us Diana, I am treated well at work Diana, I am not beaten when I misbehave.

Join us Diana. Join us and be free.

Edit: oh my God. I made up the beatings comment on the spot. But one of the borg actually said something like this https://twitter.com/antipoetry/status/1162028572929855488?s=...

Edit2: oh whew obvious parody. Hilarious, nearly fell for it!

Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by brocket on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:38PM (#20717500)
His account is violating Twitter's impersonation policy. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-imper...

> The profile clearly states it is not affiliated with or connected to any similarly-named individuals or brands.

Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by detuur on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:45PM (#20718272)
What's Twitter's policy on using fake accounts with stock picture avatars for openly astroturfing?
Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by 2_listerine_pls on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:23AM (#20712650)
> Bezos ain't paying me a dime to say I like my job. Instead, I get paid for my effort to educate others about how wonderful it is.
Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by robjan on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:02AM (#20712326)
It's hard to know what's real and fake. Some of the FC Ambassadors are definitely satire accounts.
Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by anonymousab on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:04AM (#20712335)
The more 'real' looking ones seem to be through some application called Sprinklr.
Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by UperSpaceGuru on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:46PM (#20716992)
I was amused at how quickly sprinklr picked up my tweet with the word amazon in it, I got a canned response in minutes & actual human contact within a day.

https://twitter.com/ahmedrezat/status/1162081845170671616?s=...

Update: FYI, my qualm wasn’t about AmazonFCs, but seeing the business end of Amazon try to put a distressed driver back on the road immediately after a very serious accident. The person who contacted me from Amazon told me that the driver was not put back on driving duty that day (so at least someone paid attention). So it’s not all negative.

Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by MiloPerkins on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:14AM (#20712118)
Damn...Diana ripping them a new one