Twitter PR rep unfollows critical journalist

Is Twitter setting a dangerous precedent of PR professionals’ using passive aggression to thwart the media?

And by “thunderous wrath,” I mean that he will unleash the social media equivalent of a nose-thumbing by—gasp!—unfollowing you.

Silicon Valley Watcher
‘s Tom Foremski criticized Twitter for demanding a tax break from the City of San Francisco. In response, Garrett unfollowed Foremski on Twitter.

Shortly thereafter, Foremski blogged about Garrett’s symbolic move.

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