By Tyler Sutherland
The general manager and news director at WPMI-TV in Alabama were suspended over the following unique idea for a billboard.
Having thought ahead of their competition, the station invested in a digital billboard that would display the latest headlines from its Twitter feed in real-time. Just one problem: The above headline didn’t fit best when placed next to three of its on air personalities. The particular tweet was an actual news story, but created a lot of unwanted, bad publicity for the station after a motorist snapped a cell phone photo of the unfortunate display.
In other Twitter news, the word ‘Twitter’ is now the most-used word in the English language of 2009.
