{"id":47713,"date":"2014-11-15T23:48:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T05:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47713"},"modified":"2014-11-15T23:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T05:21:42","slug":"new-england-patriots-twitter-blunder-social-media-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47713","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots Twitter Blunder &#8211; Social Media Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-794\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_794\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_794_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"70bad6cbcd\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"794\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Are you a fan of Social Media?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-794-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2306\" name=\"poll_794\" value=\"2306\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2306\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2307\" name=\"poll_794\" value=\"2307\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2307\">No<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(794);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(794); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-794-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47713 \" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47713 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-47714 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pat.jpg\" alt=\"pat\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media snafus continue to abound. This time, the New England Patriots&#8217; twitter page is the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating a millionth follower seems innocent enough. It is indeed a monumental occasion. The problem arose from the millionth followers choice of names. &#8220;IHateN*ggers&#8221; was the moniker of the winning entry and as such, a personalized jersey and a congratulatory tweet which read &#8220;Thanks for helping us become the first NFL team with 1 million followers!&#8221; accompanied the notification.\u00a0One would think that somewhere along the lines, someone would have caught this, or is this a wicked throw back to the 1940&#8217;s?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Patriots apologized for the tweet, blaming their filtering system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">RSR Is NOW Hiring Boxing Writers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt Social media snafus continue to abound. This time, the New England Patriots&#8217; twitter page is the culprit. Celebrating a millionth follower seems innocent enough. It is indeed a monumental occasion. The problem arose from the millionth followers choice of names. &#8220;IHateN*ggers&#8221; was the moniker of the winning entry and as such, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[11105],"class_list":["post-47713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sporting-news","tag-new-england-patriots-twitter-blunder-social-media-strikes-again"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47713"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}