{"id":3332,"date":"2016-05-01T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/01\/comcast-cares-day-trends-on-twitter-not-in-a-good-way\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:21:42","slug":"comcast-cares-day-trends-on-twitter-not-in-a-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/01\/comcast-cares-day-trends-on-twitter-not-in-a-good-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast Cares Day trends on Twitter, not in a good way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gettyimages-488783288\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzMwLzU1L0dldHR5SW1hZ2VzLjgwM2FiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/259d2a65\/803\/GettyImages-488783288.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Comcast+Cares+Day+trends+on+Twitter%2C+not+in+a+good+way&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F30%2Fcomcast-cares-hashtag-backfires%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F30%2Fcomcast-cares-hashtag-backfires%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>No good deed goes unpunished, especially when you&#8217;re Comcast and there&#8217;s an entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/comcast\">subreddit<\/a> dedicated to complaints about your company&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/11\/12\/comcast-brian-roberts\/\">notoriously bad customer service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/28\/comcast-buys-dreamworks-animation\/\">Comcast buys DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The annual Comcast Cares Day\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">when thousands of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">the cable giant&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">employees<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0across the country go out and volunteer in their communities\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">tremendously backfired when the hashtag #ComcastCaresDay began to trend on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Even though the event was not related to Comcast&#8217;s costumer service, Twitter users immediately hijacked the social media trend to\u00a0<\/span>taunt<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0the company.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/30\/comcast-cares-hashtag-backfires\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/fail\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Fail<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/hashtags\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Hashtags<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/twitter-reactions\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Twitter Reactions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/twitter-moments\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Twitter Moments<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/twitter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Twitter<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/ijRk7cW6Htg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No good deed goes unpunished, especially when you&#8217;re Comcast and there&#8217;s an entire subreddit dedicated to complaints about your company&#8217;s notoriously bad customer service. 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