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1 Tweet = 1 Lost Job + 1 Huge Following
An “online marketing specialist” who lost his job last week at the Hungarian branch of Vodafone has become something of sensation on Facebook – with at last check close to 2,100 fans.
According to a report on the Hungarian business portal Portfolio.hu, Tamas Muller was sacked from Vodafone for making one witty Twitter tweet. On December 4, rival mobile carrier T-Mobile’s Hungarian network was down, a fact that was announced at @tmobilehungary.
Muller retweeted this announcement and added “OK, give us a ring.” You can read the infamous Tweet here (in Hungarian).
Muller had only been with the firm for three months, and the incident happened immediately after he was promoted to online communication director. In fact, this article announcing his promotion appeared the day before the less-than-140-character missive.
