Wanted: Award-winning writer. Must deliver puns in 140 characters or less #Eurovision

Pic from Observation Desk

Congratulations to Denmark, who last night (Saturday 18th May) won the annual cheese-fest that is the Eurovision - I'm not really a fan (can you tell?).

I am however a fan of people doing interesting things on social media, and of how those ideas might apply to other situations.

The BBC did something interesting last night, they hired Dan Maier, part of the award-winning TV Burp writing team, to manage their BBC Eurovision Twitter account. Dan was also in place for the semi-finals earlier in the week. The result on each occasion was dry wit, guffaws, and some edgy humour. I didn't follow the Eurovision broadcast, but I did follow the tweets from (and replies to) the BBC Eurovision twitter account - Great fun!

My question - No doubt the BBC had all sorts of safeguards in place, but handing their Eurovision account over to an immense comic wit undoubtedly carried some risk. It paid-off for the BBC, but would your charity be prepared to do something similar, giving a donor, member or someone with a high-profile control over what you post?

If you have already done something like this. please do comment and let us know how it went.

Here's a selection of the things Dan was posting:

Hasn't David Luiz got a game tomorrow?
— BBC Eurovision (@bbceurovision) May 18, 2013

Whenever you see Sven-Göran Eriksson watching a football match, this is what's going on in his head.
— BBC Eurovision (@bbceurovision) May 18, 2013

PS. folks, I am not Graham Norton, despite the avatar. He's not *that* good at multi-tasking.
— BBC Eurovision (@bbceurovision) May 18, 2013

Igor is 7ft 8 with size 24 feet. You know what they say about men with size 24 feet, don't you, ladies? Looong laces. #eurovision
— BBC Eurovision (@bbceurovision) May 18, 2013

Real opinion-divider, this one.The writer says it’s too good to win Eurovision. Should’ve written something slightly worse then, mate.
— BBC Eurovision (@bbceurovision) May 18, 2013

Missed the winning entry? Here's Emmelie de Forest with Only Teardrops:



And, given this is a post by an Irish guy, here's the obligatory embed of My Lovely Horse (Courtesy of Graham Linehan & Father Ted, performed by The Divine Comedy):