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Nate Rawlings has a Time article, based on an article in The New York Times by Michael De La Merced, about a good idea gone bad:

JP Morgan Chase canceled an online Q&A with a senior executive after being bombarded with hostile questions and jokes to its #AskJPM hashtag.
The country’s largest bank by total assets had planned the to host an online discussion with vice chairman James B. Lee Jr., who Dealbook calls the bank’s top dealmaker. But when JP Morgan’s Twitter account made a request for queries, they got far more than they bargained for:

https://twitter.com/schoun/statuses/400753775251451905
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/400741905375318016
https://twitter.com/ElisabethCarey/statuses/400757449646678017
https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/statuses/400737343872593921
https://twitter.com/RudyHavenstein/statuses/400753154091786241

After word got out about the cancellation, some were bummed out for practical reasons:

https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/400827756763574273

A spokesman for the bank emailed Dealbook with: “#Badidea! Back to the drawing board!” As of recently, it’s a bad idea that won’t go away, as jokes, questions, and criticism are still flooding into the #AskJPM hashtag on Twitter.

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