The Wall Blog » outrage http://wallblog.co.uk Social, marketing, media : blogged Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:05:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Social Media rants against Samantha Brick – but who is worth listening to? http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/04/04/social-media-rants-against-samantha-brick-but-who-is-worth-listening-to/ http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/04/04/social-media-rants-against-samantha-brick-but-who-is-worth-listening-to/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:48:08 +0000 Tom McCann http://wordpress.hbpl.co.uk/wallblog/?p=25920 This past 24 hours have seen the latest Twitter storm come hurtling through the social media atmosphere, sweeping up thousands before it in a big stinky cloud of outrage and bile. Not for the first time, the catalyst for the disgust was the Daily Mail, this time an article by Samantha Brick about “the downsides to looking pretty”. Whether or not they are cynically doing this stuff on purpose (1.5 million hits on one article is pretty impressive) is open for debate, but yet again they prove the sheer monumental snowball that can be created on social media if you do enough to sufficiently create the avalanche. 

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