Memo: Commercial-in-Confidence From: <REDACTED>, Telstra Social Media Market Research To: <REDACTED> It would be nice to report the unequivocal success of our first test of Twitter as a market research tool, but for reasons outlined below, I am afraid I cannot. To recap the high points of the campaign, the strategy was as …

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Tuesday 5th February 2013 23:21 GMT southpacificpom

Is it April 1st already?

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Wednesday 6th February 2013 01:32 GMT Anonymous Coward

Satire?

Probably closer to the truth than is comfortable.

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