JPMorgan Chase Cancels Twitter Q&A as ‘Bad Idea’
Published at | Updated at(NEW YORK) — Like many other companies JPMorgan Chase was trying to use Twitter to engage customers and leverage the bank’s brand. But like McDonald’s and other companies before it, the bank was unprepared for the response from cyberspace.
After JPMorgan announced vice chairman and veteran investment banker James “Jimmy” Lee was going to be available to answer questions via the hashtag #AskJPM, Twitter users harangued the firm’s Twitter account.
$JPM VC Jimmy Lee is taking over @JPMorgan on 11/14 at 1pm ET. Tweet Qs using #AskJPM & learn more about him here: http://t.co/eTDT8pJeq8
— J.P. Morgan (@jpmorgan) November 13, 2013
The response was similar to a Twitter campaign by McDonald’s that asked users to share their favorite memories of the burger chain. The innocent request backfired when users took over the chain’s hashtag to tell horror stories of alleged bad food and service.
While some of the tweets were standard questions related to the bank’s business, others were highly critical of the firm’s ethics.
Do all employees get noise-canceling headphones to mute the sounds of poverty your foreclosures cause, or do only execs get those? #askJPM
— alexis goldstein (@alexisgoldstein) November 13, 2013
#AskJPM What type of gun did Jamie Dimon hold to Jon Corzine’s head when demanding the xfer of the MFGlobal funds? A Beretta? A Colt 45?
— BANKSTER SLAYER (@banksterslayer) November 14, 2013
JPMorgan admitted the campaign was a “bad idea” and decided to cancel the Q&A.
Tomorrow’s Q&A is cancelled. Bad Idea. Back to the drawing board.
— J.P. Morgan (@jpmorgan) November 14, 2013
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