Whopper Facebook App - Ditch Friends for Burgers

(4 posts)
Topics: FACEBOOK , RANDOM
by Daba
18049 Posts
Ready to get things pooping
10 months ago
3 years, 1 month ago

 

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Burger King, through their insanely creative advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky (see their recent Burger King perfume launch), launches a Facebook application that encourages users to remove Facebook friends. Sacrifice ten of them and you got a free Whopper. 233,906 friends were removed by 82,771 people in less than a week.

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Or it could have been, if Facebook hadn’t shut it down, citing privacy issues:

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/14/facebook-blows-a-whopper-of-an-opportunity/

by mburr
169 Posts
hates when Jamie Foxx impersonates Ray Charles.
1 year, 10 months ago
3 years, 1 month ago
It's not enough that they get all my cologne dollars? Now they want my FB friends?
by Al
4396 Posts
3 years, 1 month ago

Thats brilliant man... I only wish I knew about it earlier.

Id be dropping FB 'friends' left and right.

by Daba
18049 Posts
Ready to get things pooping
10 months ago
3 years, 1 month ago
I have a pretty good amount of digital pals on Facebook. Don't think I'd sell them for some whoppers though. I imagine Facebook didn't like the idea of an app that encouraged people to get rid of their friends.

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