Vapers win in epic hashtag hijack

[Oliver]

I've written up what happened more fully here: http://vaping.com/news/Vapers-Demolish-Anti-vaping-Lies-with-Hashtag-Hijack

A huge social media backlash has erupted in the wake of an anti-ecigarette campaign by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The #curbit campaign, which equates the risks of smoking with vaping, consists of billboard posters around SF bay area with a strong focus on the BART and MUNI public transport systems, and social media postings cautioning against the use of vapor products.

And check out the thread on the campaign itself which is in the News forum: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...rrorists-launch-attack-against-vaping-sf.html

 

[Oliver]

Realistically, this is the single worst state-funded attack on vaping - it will sow doubt and confusion in smokers' minds and it will lead directly to death. I almost can't believe they've done it.

 

[Katmar]

It is beyond reprehensible, Smokey.

 

[Tyrawr]

Thanks for this

 

[pennysmalls]

SF is the perfect place for this happen. I grew up near there. The population is massive, people speak their minds freely and there's money there to fight this. Go Cisco!

 

[unsure]

It's all the treehuggers that populate our state.

 

[Oliver]

It's all the treehuggers that populate our state.

sadly, I wish it were treehuggers in charge. But, nothing against treehuggers, this kind of deviousness requires cold, clever, calculating deviousness to get off the ground.

Treehuggers these people ain't.

 

[OGNDY]

For a blue, ostensibly liberal and progressive state, California sure wants to ban a lot of stuff.

 

[Surf Monkey]

It's all the treehuggers that populate our state.

Not really. Like Oregon CA is a conservative state with a couple of liberal cities in it.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Realistically, this is the single worst state-funded attack on vaping - it will sew doubt and confusion in smokers' minds and it will lead directly to death. I almost can't believe they've done it.

Now we can call the desk murders curb murders.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

For a blue, ostensibly liberal and progressive state, California sure wants to ban a lot of stuff.

Do not confuse liberal with libertarian. Liberals are the biggest regulators/nannies. They want a "better" life for all... or else.

 

[Cotay]

For a blue, ostensibly liberal and progressive state, California sure wants to ban a lot of stuff.

That's because progressivism isn't concerned with liberty...it values control.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

We are in the worst drought in over 1,200 years and this is what they choose to spend money on? Oh that's right, SF steals our water (out of a national park no less) and then sells a trickle of it back for a fortune to those locals unfortunate enough to live in a local water district while SF hogs the rest. SF allows those on low/fixed incomes to be tossed out of their homes so developers can make a fortune. What really makes my day is that the whole thing was hijacked. Perhaps now they can get back to teaching some of their citizens to curb their pets.

 

[Circa Survivor]

I'm 27 and I don't even know what putting a hashtag in front of something does. I still don't understand it xD

 

[Oliver]

I wonder if there's a public record of how much this cost, and from where it was funded. Any ideas?

 

[unsure]

Do not confuse liberal with libertarian. Liberals are the biggest regulators/nannies. They want a "better" life for all... or else.

True, everything from guns to gasoline. My bad....didn't mean to start a political debate.

 

[Vap-d]

went ahead and added my blast to twitter if anybody want to follow my twitter is @bigdbrown and yes im not in SF but it is a cause people!

 

[Oliver]

I'm 27 and I don't even know what putting a hashtag in front of something does. I still don't understand it xD

I'll bite - it creates a sort of virtual "channel", so that all responses using the hastag are grouped together when someone clicks the tag. It allows a feed to be created, and twitter has some algorithms for displaying the "top" responses in the virtual channel.

It also allows certain topics to trend and, again, twitter uses geolocation and whatnot to make sure that the trends are (to a very loose degree) relevant to the user.

 

[Vap-d]

I wonder if there's a public record of how much this cost, and from where it was funded. Any ideas?

currently researching this !

 

[Surf Monkey]

Do not confuse liberal with libertarian. Liberals are the biggest regulators/nannies. They want a "better" life for all... or else.

Paint with a broad brush much?