Wasps' Twitter Account

[Lwasp]

Was trying to follow the game online and often view Wasps' Twitter page to up with he score and who is doing what (don't have a Twitter account or log on so can't interact with it, just view it from outside) and noticed the post match attempt at humour. Seems to have got a few people very upset.

Wasps posted "We're gonna need a bigger boat" in a clear Jaws reference to losing to Sharks. In isolation quite funny I thought, but should sports team Twitter operators acknowledge that fans often have sense of humour failures in the immediate aftermath of seeing their team beaten? What they want is an apology, an acknowledgement that things were not good enough etc. The responses to that tweet were less than polite.

Just wondered what others' thoughts on post beating humour are?

[Vespula Vulgaris]

I saw that and thought it was pretty seriously misjudged.

But I've been offering help with the way they do social media for over a year now with no uptake so am pretty much resigned to them getting the mood wrong.

[Neils]

Also saw it (I have got into a sort of perverse habit of checking after our string of defeats) and felt it was a bit silly. Lighten the mood yes but not just afterwards! Mind you some of the responses!

[Rossm]

Sometimes they do better.

"Is there anything Alfie can't do?!"

[Neils]

Sometimes they do better.

"Is there anything Alfie can't do?!"

True

We just need Alfie to click (and the rest of them).

[RogerE]

From that picture Alfie is trying to make the situation worse (pulling the bow further into the sand)

[InBetweenWasp]

I think the big problem is that there is a vast swathe of Twitter users who are simply ar*eholes looking to have a moan at any opportunity they can take.

Sure, as a fan, I might be pissed off after a loss but i'm a grown up and if Wasps post something tongue-in-cheek i'm able to at least see the attempt to lighten the mood rather than spit my dummy out and choose to send abusive messages back to them.

There's also the echo chamber effect with Twitter - 10k views of so of that Tweet and 65 or so comments, not all that are chastising the post.  So a minority have found it distasteful.  Sometimes we're too caught up in the handful of negative comments and not the overall impact.

[13thWarrior]

I think the big problem is that there is a vast swathe of Twitter users who are simply ar*eholes looking to have a moan at any opportunity they can take.

Sure, as a fan, I might be pissed off after a loss but i'm a grown up and if Wasps post something tongue-in-cheek i'm able to at least see the attempt to lighten the mood rather than spit my dummy out and choose to send abusive messages back to them.

There's also the echo chamber effect with Twitter - 10k views of so of that Tweet and 65 or so comments, not all that are chastising the post.  So a minority have found it distasteful.  Sometimes we're too caught up in the handful of negative comments and not the overall impact.

+1

Attempts to lighten the mood are welcome. It is a game after all