Is this twitter account having a breakdown?

[PR1Berske]

https://twitter.com/NRE_NXEA

I may have misunderstood its request to 'cease using' a certain hashtag but the "LOL" and all the rest seems a bit 'off' to me....

 

[EM2]

NRE have renamed their account to NRE_GrAnglia, so some joker has taken the opportunity to nab the old Twitter handle.

 

[trentside]

NRE have renamed their account to NRE_GrAnglia, so some joker has taken the opportunity to nab the old Twitter handle.

deleted

 

[Eagle]

https://twitter.com/NRE_NXEA

I may have misunderstood its request to 'cease using' a certain hashtag but the "LOL" and all the rest seems a bit 'off' to me....

It's a fake account, that's been set up under the recently-vacated @NRE_NXEA username (the old @NRE_NXEA account was renamed @NRE_GrAnglia early on Sunday morning).

EDIT: beaten to it.

 

[asylumxl]

Amusing. At least for me it is .

 

[trentside]

Amusing. At least for me it is .

Agree. It's like the guy who bought the Railtrack (Scotland) Ltd company (or similar) and began receiving loads of mail for the defunct company and started sending humorous responses.

Possibly damaging for both NRE and NX though!

 

[Eagle]

Possibly damaging for both NRE and NX though!

Any chance of a cease-and-desist?

 

[34D]

Any chance of a cease-and-desist?

Well we don't know (yet) whether this is National Express or not... if it is then you can understand them wanting their brand image to be protected and not linked to the mistakes of Abellio.

If it isn't, then a cease and desist letter must come from NX only.

 

[Eagle]

If it isn't, then a cease and desist letter must come from NX only.

It's also abusing the National Rail Enquiries name though (which is a genuine source of confusion).

Being as it's a NRE Twitter account it's spoofing, not a NX one, surely it must be NRE who serves the CAD? Especially if it turns out to be perpetrated by someone connected with NX.

 

[EM2]

I've tweeted NRE to bring it to their attention. They're already aware and are (I quote) 'in the process of dealing with it'.

 

[trentside]

Looking at the most recent tweets, it suggests its being done by someone in the NRE office. An apology was posted but the mystery tweeter responded that they'd changed the password.

As they've apparently freely admitted to working for NRE, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before action is taken.

 

[Rich McLean]

It's still going. It's actually quite funny. GA also have an unofficial account, ran by a passenger

 

[Hydro]

Agree. It's like the guy who bought the Railtrack (Scotland) Ltd company (or similar) and began receiving loads of mail for the defunct company and started sending humorous responses.

Those letters are utterly hilarious.

 

[90019]

Those letters are utterly hilarious.

For those who haven't seen it.
It was originally posted on the forum [url="http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34017]back in June 2010[/url].

 

[londonmidland]

From Greater Anglia Rail Twitter - "The 16:45 will be cancelled due to it being cancelled." Umm...

 

[Rich McLean]

That's also another spoof account. Some of these have been around for a while. As long as they annouce that they are spoof accounts, Twitter won't do anything

 

[iphone76]

Seems the old @nxeastanglia twitter account has also been taken over.

 

[Rich McLean]

Seems like a war is going to break out in between the two. These accounts do provide funny reading while at work

 

[whhistle]

For those who haven't seen it.

Nice hosting website

We apologise for the misuse of this account. The person responsible is no longer part of the organisation and we regret any offence caused

Posted 11 hours ago.

 

[90019]

Nice hosting website

Don't blame me for that one, it's just where it's been linked from before.

 

[Rich McLean]

https://twitter.com/#!/NXEAnglia

He's back under a different name, just not the same though