Last Call: The Only Good Brand Twitter Account
It's shocking, I know, but it exists.
We've done a lot of writing recently about those rascally rascals behind brand Twitter accounts and their scampish antics.
But I am here to tell you there is one good brand Twitter account. It may be the only purely good brand Twitter account. My love for it is true. It is a regular source of, at worst, a smile, and at best, a ridiculous, high-pitched giggle.
Meet the SparkNotes Twitter account, which posts literary memes and nothing else. Even when it's announcing something else, like a site outage, it's still literary memes. Here's one from today:
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) May 31, 2019
Earlier this week:
Nobody:
The oracle in a Greek tragedy: https://t.co/HRK90jChGH
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) May 30, 2019
This one seems like it was written for Kate Bernot and I to send back and forth to each other through Slack forever:
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) May 29, 2019
This one got the aforementioned high-pitched giggle:
I don't know who needs to hear this but murdering an old man and hiding the body beneath the floorboards while the sound of his still-beating heart exacerbates your descent into madness is not a personality trait
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) May 21, 2019
Another Cher one:
Nobody:
Hamlet's father, appearing out of nowhere: https://t.co/q0CX2WYDwu
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) February 21, 2019
Good:
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) May 13, 2019
They dust off this old format with some frequency:
And then there are a bunch of Pride And Prejudice entries, and I love them all equally. There is perhaps no subject about which I will more regularly laugh than Mr. Darcy.
Nobody:
Mr. Darcy: https://t.co/xsMFoqpTUA
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) April 18, 2019
Darcy when Elizabeth rejects his first proposal pic.twitter.com/Rz96mzwxJY
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 27, 2019
I don't know who needs to hear this but being an unmarried gentleman worth 10,000 a year is not a personality trait
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 21, 2019
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life, especially if what you love is "being an unmarried gentleman worth 10,000 a year"
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) February 13, 2019
And one Wickham one, because fuck that guy:
Wickham introducing himself to Elizabeth pic.twitter.com/pnAAU5RyiI
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) February 13, 2019
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a brand account sucks unless it is refunding your pizza or posting Jane Austen jokes. Have a great weekend!