Best Part Of This Chairman's Twitter Chat Fail? He Was Tweeting From Twitter HQ

It’s bad enough when your Chairman bombs a very public PR event because you forgot to prep her on some key element, but it’s even worse (we’d imagine) when your Chairman bombs because he doesn’t know how to use a platform – and he’s sitting in that platform’s headquarters!

Enter FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. He visited Twitter HQ and planned to hold a Twitter chat while there, using the #AskJulius hashtag. Sounds simple enough, right? Nope!

There was lots of build up to the event:

 

Heck, there’s even a shot of  #AskJulius sitting next to Twitter’s CEO, Dick Costolo:

 

But you know what there WASN’T? An #AskJulius

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