If you haven’t heard the story of the @TotallyManU Twitter account, well, sit back, relax, grab some popcorn and enjoy the ride. Because this is going to be a fun one. This man, or woman, left their job to start a Twitter account strictly devoted to breaking Manchester United news, and being a “CEO of a global social networking company.”
And to contact Man United Executive Vice President Ed Woodward. As you might expect @TotallyManU totally failed in the mission to reach Mr. Woodward, and when that didn’t work, paid out of pocket to fly to Madrid. (After quitting their job no less) in order to break the latest transfer news on Angel Di Maria.
SPOILER ALERT: that didn’t work out so well either.
Eventually, this person quit what they thought was their new calling, after just five days and 30 whole tweets. However, they gave us some unintentionally hilarious tweets along the way. By the way, yes, “Man U” is extremely offensive and wrong, as we chronicled here. Is it too much to expect someone who devoted their life’s work to Man United to actually know this?
I invite you to go look at the Twitter stream, or “company” as this person seems to like to refer to themselves, and have a good laugh. Or read the recap on Awful Announcing or Deadspin.
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