Looking for Suzie Warners original review that caused the Bannatyne backlash?
You won’t find it, it was removed, as quoted by entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne OBE today -
What you will see if you do a search for the review on Swgillingham, Charlton House is a Google entry here, that is still floating around Google, but click on it and it is gone.
I admit this morning I was very disappointed to read that Duncan Bannatyne who I value reading on Twitter had over reacted in my opinion and retweeted Suzie Warners personal details (phone number and email); causing her to receive hate mail and texts. Why? Not because I think she was right “lying” on the review about the hotel because she didn’t get her own way but because I believe that using twitter and his influence like that is wrong, it actually makes me sad.
Not that we can even comment on what she said, as its now been removed, we only have others word for that. We can however see that DB retweeted the phone numbers as that is in his twitter stream, so that we know is a fact.
To make matters worse for Suzie Warner people are saying that she sold her story to the Sun, well according to a comment made by Kevin O’Sullivan on a very good post by @Markshaw here Kevin tracked down Suzie for the story and no fee was discussed. The Sun article here
So if Duncan Bannatyne had said nothing on his twitter page about this review, not as many people would know about it as they do now, because how many of us even new Tripadvisor existed before? We all do now, good PR for them.
I am purely writing this post because I can and I will – I need to feel that we have free speech, that I can say that I disagree without fear of repercussions.