Twitter snotklap from South Africans has Bell Pottinger diving for cover
On Friday @buliTM asked: “Anyone organising a party for @BellPottinger for having secured their account?”
"We just wanted to talk‚" joked South Africans after the Gupta family's former PR firm‚ Bell Potttinger‚ made their Twitter account private. Bell Pottinger describes itself as one of the largest and "leading" full service PR companies in the United Kingdom. Now anyone who wants to follow the agency on Twitter and see their tweets needs permission. The PR company‚ which created a campaign for the Guptas to divert attention from the family and its dealings with South African politicians to "white monopoly capital"‚ have been stalked on Twitter by angry South Africans. Every time in the past two months that Bell Pottinger tweeted about a UK event or issue‚ South Africans responded. When it tweeted a photo of an event it held in London‚ South Africans mocked its all white attendees‚ saying it looked very "white monopoly capital". One also tweeted a question to Bell Pottinger‚ asking where the Guptas were. When Bell Pottinger‚ tweeted about UK political parties stance on housing‚ a South...
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