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		<title>Twitter for Connecting to Customers: A first Hand Experience</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I promised myself i wouldn&#8217;t write a post about twitter, mainly because it&#8217;s what every wannabe digital tosser is talking about, but i failed. whatever. sue me.
So last week my internet connection went down. FAIL. Annoyed i called VirginMedia (our cable provider) and was played a message that there was a fault in our area. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I promised myself i wouldn&#8217;t write a post about twitter, mainly because it&#8217;s what every wannabe digital tosser is talking about, but i failed. whatever. sue me.</p>
<p>So last week my internet connection went down. FAIL. Annoyed i called VirginMedia (our cable provider) and was played a message that there was a fault in our area. Fair enough, these things happen.</p>
<p>Over the next few days it went up and down, and the message was updated. Annoying, but at least they&#8217;re being honest about it. Eventually our connection dropped all together, nothing. absolutely zero bit&#8217;s of internet flowing through our tubes, so i called them again, no message related to our area.</p>
<p>Weird.</p>
<p>I stayed on the line and got through to an arrogant, annoying, condescending wanker. Being that you have to have an IQ lower than that of a half eaten banana to work as a &#8220;technical support&#8221; call center rep it was no wonder he told me i had no internets due the fact i&#8217;m using an apple router (WRONG).</p>
<p>So i was pissed. I did a twitter search for virginmedia (on my iPhone) to see if anyone had any tips. What did i find? <a href="http://twitter.com/virginmedia">@virginmedia</a> I decided to <a href="http://twitter.com/craigtmackenzie/status/1341117273">ask the question</a> re: my internets, and what pursued was a few tweets back and forth, an email or two, and in less than 24 hours our internet was back to normal.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m ecstatic.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure if <a href="http://twitter.com/virginmedia">@virginmedia</a> is a group of people and i got lucky, or if it is just one guy (a great guy called Alex Brown) but it&#8217;s turned me from an <em>about-to-ditch-this-bitch</em> hater to an <strong>oh.my.gods.i.love.you.thank.you.so.much</strong> lover.</p>
<p>If you have issues with your virginmedia stuffs, tweet <a href="http://twitter.com/virginmedia">@virginmedia</a> and it&#8217;ll get sorted much, much faster.</p>
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