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Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry

by Stephanie Haberman on  mashable.com

The Swedish government has been handing over the @sweden Twitter account to a different citizen each week, and this week's owner is steering the car right off a social media cliff. The project began in December, but an article in The New York Times ...

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by Charlotte Henry on  wallblog.co.uk

Sweden faces outrage after Nazi tweets result from Twitter experiment

How do you change the perception of your country using social media? It was a question that the Swedish tourist board asked itself and its solution was the @sweden project.It took the brave step of turning its official twitter account overto a ...

by cecilyk on  blogs.babble.com

Sweden’s HUGE Twitter Fail (And Why You Don’t Hand Over Access To Your Account)

This story is going to make a hell of a case study about social media experiments failing! Apparently, a few months back Swedens Tourism office decided that a great way to promote Sweden to English-speaking potential visitors was to allow us all to ...

by John Terrill on  sbx.speakerboxpr.com

When Twitter Attacks: The @sweden Meltdown

Social media can be used for good or evil, but either way, the consequences of every statement made via a social platform are archived forever by the collective hivemind of the Internet. Sometimes this is goodand sometimes its not so good. Sweden ...