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At first glance the image of a woman in lingerie draped across a bed staring seductively at the camera seems so misplaced in a tweet about discounted hosting that one suspects the social media manager slipped the wrong image into the tweet by mistake. Upon further inspection, it seems they've taken a cue from the Protein World twitter trolling tactic, and are aiming to woo the "I like semi-undressed women in my twitter feed" crowd as customers.
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— FORTAcloud (@FortaCloud) May 18, 2015
@RichardPrice Well, 99% of our customers are male between the ages of 18 and 42, similar to another industry. See https://t.co/KvuH8MlEWo.
— FORTAcloud (@FortaCloud) May 18, 2015
Naturally, most of twitter is now out to explain to the FortaCloud hosting company, located in Reston, Virginia USA what sexism is, and loudly declaring "this would not have happened had they had any woman on staff". To this FortaCloud brings up the famously filled with eyecandy & innuendo Godaddy ads, like "Shower" and "Proceedings", one of which made it to the top 5 worst super bowl commercials of all time list. Honestly, FortaCloud should just bring up the PETA ads, they specialize in nude women for attentions sake.
@AdamTuttle We have many of both Adam. Do you not recall the #godaddy Super Bowl ads a few years back?
— FORTAcloud (@FortaCloud) May 18, 2015