HMV Social Media Manager Live-Tweeted Layoffs

As dozens of employees were being laid off from the troubled British entertainment company HMV yesterday, one, the social media manager, live-tweeted the layoffs.

As dozens of employees were being laid off from the troubled British entertainment company HMV yesterday, one, the social media manager, live-tweeted the layoffs.

“There are over 60 of us who are being fired at once! Mass execution, of loyal employees who love the brand,” she tweeted, using the hashtag #hmvXFactorFiring.

She added: “Just overhead the Marketing Director … ask, ‘How do I shut down Twitter?'”

Poppy Rose took responsibility for the account today through her own Twitter account.

“I

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