Mad Men Twitter Accounts Suspended!
August 26th, 2008 by Alec McNayrPosted in Business, Drama, Marketing, Series |AMC enacted their copyright and had Twitter suspend the accounts associated with their Mad Men characters.
There are a lot of bloggers up-in-arms about this, as bloggers can be (read: “The DMCA sucks!” “Burn copyrights!” “Anarchy!”). Bloggers, who tend to be writers, creatives, artists, and marketing self-promoters are probably especially fond of Mad Men, and were, probably, like me, excited about further interacting with the characters. Twitter seemed to be a spot-on communications tool for the show.
I 100% agree that AMC (which pays for and owns the show) has the right to do this.
I just hope the cable network takes note of the moment and makes these Twitter accounts official. They should continue the good work of their anonymous (and probably now pissed-off) fans. I can only hope that staff writers or assistants are tasked with maintaining these accounts, and they don’t have to run things through legal before each post.
Links of note:
- I am @Paul_Kinsey
- Mad Men on Twitter
- DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters (Venture Beat)
2 Responses to “Mad Men Twitter Accounts Suspended!”
By chelsie on Aug 26, 2008
i dont get why those characters would be using twitter? isnt that show set in the 60’s? how does that make any sense?? or was it the actor’s twitter accounts?
By Alec McNayr on Aug 26, 2008
@chelsie
You’re totally right. It doesn’t make logical sense. But I think it’s an ironic twist. It’s an interesting way for fans to interact, even across space and time. In some way, it’s nice to suspend disbelief. Plus, the letterhead would be way too expensive to achieve the same effect via the mail.
In my creative mind, Don Draper is having his secretary type out his tweets for him.