http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/06/30/critic_fight/index.html
A great story from Mark Elizabeth Williams about an author who took her frustrations at a bad review out on her Twitter account. Needless to say it didn't play well.
A couple of stellar highs include:
"If you want to tell xxx off, her phone number is xxx" (nice!)
and the classic apology:
"I never meant to offend anyone, and I'm truly sorry if I did" (yeah right - this is like the apology you give in class when you get caught passing notes and know you've got no power to do anything but look contrite...)
Anyways, it reminded me of the Eggers snark brouhaha a while ago, where Eggers took it upon himself to respond to his critics in a 10,000 wd email. As the author rightly notes, "that a lot of tweets!"
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