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Amazon ambassador program workers on Twitter

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April 1, 2023
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Amazon ambassador has reportedly ended its controversial program through which certain workers tweeted nice things about the company on Social Media, closing the book on what

cynics might call a case study in how to never market.

The program was a PR effort, launched back in 2018, as Amazon was facing increasing

criticism for the work conditions in its fulfillment centers. The company was growing at

dizzying speeds, adding tens of thousands of new warehouse workers per year (and still is!)—

but a number of news reports alleged that warehouses got too hot, that pay was too low, and,

most infamously, that workers in some facilities were resorting to peeing in water bottles

because they couldn’taccess a bathroom in the break time allotted.

Now, insiders tell the Financial Times that Amazon quietly shuttered the program late last year because senior executives “were unhappy with the scheme’s poor reach.” The report also says Amazon did its best to scrub away all traces of the online messages that (as originally envisioned

by the Amazon boardroom anyway) were supposed to help improve the company’s public image.

Reached for comment about the fate of the program, an Amazon rep told Fast Company, “The

best way for people to know what happens behind the scenes at Amazon is to see for

themselves—that’s why we’re focused on giving live tours daily across the US and Europe.”

Unfortunately for Amazon, the program backfired almost from the start, getting immediately ridiculed by the press. A number of parody accounts ultimately materialized, pretending to be workers who’d gone rogue, tweeting about “father Bezos” and their love for

“3-minute regulated breaks between shifts.”

Meanwhile, the real-deal ambassadors had been handpicked by Amazon, some apparently

from managerial positions, and leaked documents showed that they were taught to reply in a “blunt” yet “polite” manner to bad tweets. They were supposedly groomed to push a counternarrative—to, in Amazon’s words, leave “no lie unchallenged” by saying things like

“No, that’s not right. I worked in an Amazon FC for over four years and never saw anyone

urinate in a bottle.”

Essentially, Amazon’s idea was for this to look quasi-organic, as if the employees were

defending Amazon of their own free will, albeit from handles that all began with “@AmazonFC.”

As a result, Amazon never promoted its individual handles, though it did eventually confirm

that real employees were behind the accounts; and those employees claimed their new PR side

gigs weren’t done for extra pay, but rather had become part of their regular work duties.

Ferreting out these accounts briefly became a media pastime; investigative journalism outfit Bellingcat logged almost 60 active ambassador accounts in America and Europe in 2019. Amazon isn’t confirming if it played a role in removing them, but all these accounts have been either deactivated or suspended, except for three.

A quick look at these three ambassador accounts perhaps shows why Amazon elected to discontinue the program.

This is a recent tweet by Ambassador No. 1:

Here’s that person last April, while Amazon was courting controversy for its

union-busting tactics:

As part of their ambassadorial duties, this person, at one point, also posted, “Finally back

from my #Suspension! Nice try trolls :P,” and they carved out time to reply to a nude-butt

thirst trap that was captioned, “In my prime, even amazon couldn’t fuck with my delivery.” The

ambassador’s comment was: “looking good! did your package arrive on time?”

Also, while Amazon was maybe frustrated with the program’s reach, it does appear that the accounts attracted considerable engagement from one group in the public sphere: trolls.

Here’s Ambassador No. 2 replying in earnest to a troll they perhaps didn’t

realize was being a total ass:

And here’s a tweet from Ambassador No. 3. It’s one of six tweets currently posted by the

account, and it publicly “suggests” that Amazon may have paid ambassadors in kind instead

of with cash:

At one point in time, ambassadors’ Twitter accounts linked to a website where people could

sign up to virtually tour Amazon fulfillment centers themselves. That seems to be the direction

toward which the company has moved, promoting live walk-throughs of warehouses,

which puts PR back squarely in Amazon’s own hands.

This post has been updated with Amazon’s response.

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