Phone company shuts down troll in the most spectacularly blunt way
Ouch.
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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.
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Tesco Mobile takes no nonsense on Twiitter.
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It's been proven time and time again that messing with Tesco Mobile on Twitter is a bad idea.
People simply won't learn, though.
On Wednesday, a Twitter-user named Baz made the bad mistake of trying to make a joke at the phone company's expense.
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Clearly they were parodying the super-viral tweet from that guy who asked Wendy's for a year's supply of chicken nuggets. It quickly backfired, though.
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Ouch.
Now at this point, Baz had two options: 1) accept defeat and walk quietly away, or 2) attempt a comeback.
Unwisely, he went for the latter.
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Tesco Mobile's response came 15 minutes later.
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This time, there was no comeback.
Topics X/Twitter
