Don’t Go Anywhere With It

Somebody at the keyboard of American Express’ Twitter account posted this today:

American Express is Expressly Pro-Abortion.

It was quickly deleted but alas, that ol’ Memory Hole doesn’t work as well as it used to. I’ve had an American Express blue card for years. I won’t be for much longer.

***UPDATE***
From American Express: “It appears our Twitter account was hacked – the Planned Parenthood tweet was not from Amex. We have re-secured our account.”

I looked into this myself. The original tweet was done via something called a “Tweet Button”. There are a bunch of twitter applications out there and they put their own little stamp on them. Mine are often from Tweetdeck and they say so. I looked into what a Tweet Button was and it is something that any website can put on their site so people can directly tweet a link to an article presented there. In this case it was an article from iVillage. The content of that tweet wasn’t created by AmEx, but it WAS done from someone logged into their twitter account. In all probability it was done by accident by someone in their social media team who thought she was logged into her own account while she was surfing around and wanted to share with her friends. Or perhaps one of them wanted to know how that worked and hit the button without realizing what it would do.

So that’s my verdict – an employee accident and certainly not a declaration of American Express’ official corporate position on an extremely polarizing social issue.