News Poor Old Lonely Gillette

We've been laughing pretty hard in the office today. Why? Because Gillette decided to engage with us on Twitter. Little old us. Who would have thought it?

Gillette's currently got 1,346 followers and we have 799. Neither number will set the world on fire, but it's what happened next that made us laugh.

Bulldog:  Let's see if we can get more followers than @Gillette. They are a huge multinational and we are tiny. RT this and follow to help.
Gillette:  @bulldognatural well, we'll follow you if that helps :) - we've only been active on a daily basis on Twitter for about 4 weeks
Gillette:  @bulldognatural plus, it's not about followers, it's about relationships and the conversation..either way, we hope you up your following! :)
Bulldog:  Ha @Gillette have given us some "advice" on how we should build relationships. Thanks Gillette, but who writes yours? We write our own.
Gillette:  @bulldognatural no advice, just wanted to chat and add one follower to your list..my bad
Bulldog:  @Gillette We didn't realise you were so lonely and wanted to chat so much. Does anyone else think that's strange? #pooroldlonelygillette
Gillette:  @bulldognatural lol - alright you got me there...have a good one
Bulldog:  @Gillette "lol"? Is that the best a man can tweet?

Hilarious on so many levels, but we particularly enjoyed the advice from Gillette's highly paid Social Media Consultant. I hope we don't get a bill.  Anyone fancy a conversation? http://www.twitter.com/bulldognatural

[Screenshot above - shame we didn't get one when it was the top item.]

Update:  Gillette have, pretty outrageously in our opinion, tried to rewrite history by deleting the offending tweet. See the screenshot below. Can anyone spot the missing entry?

Update 2: We sent them the tweet below, but they haven't replied.

Bulldog:  @Gillette Why have you deleted your reply to us? I thought we were in a "relationship".

Update 3:  So no response from Gillette at all, which doesn't really surprise us. Do you think someone got told off for having a conversation with us?

Hold on... what's this? Three visits to this page by Porter Novelli...? They aren't the ones tweeting are they? Oops, looks like they might have form in this area. C'mon guys, own up. Is it you?

Update 4: We've had an apology for the deleted tweet, which although very nice of the poor guy sat at his desk in an agency somewhere in deepest, darkest America, was completely unexpected and entirely unnecessary. And it only took them two days...

Gillette:  @bulldognatural Hey–I wanted to respond here & apologize for deleting the twt..didnt want to come off as snarky & it was a kneejerk reaction
Bulldog:  @Gillette No worries. If you'll also apologise for those adverts with massive razors in a garage then we'll draw a line under it.

We do hate those ads.