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Denny's Denies Distress Over Taiwanese Twitter Twin

by Lee Bains on February 22, 2010 at 04:10 PM

We couldn't imagine there's much of a shared demographic between Denny's and Twitter, but the ubiquitous breakfast joint doesn't seem to be working too hard at growing one, either. Although Denny's does administer two Twitter accounts, and although its menus do list a Twitter URL, there's one slight problem. That URL -- twitter.com/dennys -- doesn't belong to Denny's. It does belong to Dennys Hsieh, best known to the world as "that Taiwanese dude with the Dennys Twitter account."

According to CNET, the chain isn't terribly worried about all this. Allan Miller of Filter Creative Group, which handles Denny's social networking business, told the outlet that the menu misprint hasn't misled the followers of Denny's actual accounts: twitter.com/dennysallnightr and twitter.com/dennygrandslam. (Sure, Allan.) Unfortunately for Mr. Hsieh, the misprint hasn't helped him much, either; his account still claims a paltry 145 followers.

In the meantime, any enterprising attorneys out there might want to tweet @Taiwan. We'd imagine Mr. Hsieh's account could fetch a pretty penny -- or at least a couple lifetimes of free Grand Slams. [From: CNET]

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