Wanna troll Red Robin with me?

[rbcp]

Today while at Red Robin, I noticed that the ad cube thing on the table had a Twitter promotion, saying that if you tweet something with the hashtag of #banzailoveyou, you could win stuff.  Their website says, "Tweet your love for our Banzai Burger.  Heart-felt prizes awarded every week with one tweet getting FREE Red Robin for a year!"  For those who've never heard of it, Red Robin is a restaurant similar to Dennys or Applebees.

Rappy McRapperson, who I was having dinner with, told me I should post horrible things about them.  So I used my 3 Twitter accounts to write this:

from @rbcp: Red Robin is a horrible shitty place with horrible shitty food. #banzaiiloveyou

from @phonelosers:  Sometimes we call Red Robin, pretending to be the corporate office, and get the staff to do the most ridiculous things ever! #banzaiiloveyou

from @detectivecardo: Red Robin only hires racist waiters and the manager punched me in the face and raped me. #banzaiiloveyou

And here's one that Rappy just did on @mcrapperson: The new Red robin Hamburger was improperly cooked and now I have diereah. This is horrible #banzaiiloveyou

By using Twitter search, it seems like Red Robin isn't getting more than 2 of these hashtag tweets per day.  Usually just one.  So we could easily overtake this by posting ridiculous things on our Twitter accounts.  If you want to join in, then do it!  Post something craaaaaaazzzy.  And who knows, maybe they'll still let you win the contest.  If they're awarding a prize every week, you currently have about a 1 in 10 chance of winning.  But really, who cares about winning.  I just want to troll their contest.

Click here to search for current #banzaiiloveyou tweets

[rasterdragon]

yeah, but the reason you aren't seeing many is the hashtag is wrong. it's #banzailoveyou - one I

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23banzailoveyou

[rbcp]

I swear, on the thing we saw at Red Robin, there were two i's in it.  For realz!  I see that you're right, though, looking at their website.  I will retweet mine with the correct tags.  We can still easily make their contest wacky with this.

Official Red Robin page on this: http://www.redrobin.com/banzailoveyou/

The official rules say that you must also follow Red Robin's twitter, which is @redrobinburgers.  It also says there will be 7 winners a week and the winners are picked by RR's marketing department.

[BadFish]

Why is it every time I go to Red Robin the dirty guy workin in back comes in the restroom and grabs my leg under the stall? #banzailoveyou

[rbcp]

"against my doctor's orders, i returned to red robin for more filthy patties and urine coffee. back to the ER #banzailoveyou" - trevor

"Complained about my hamburger being too hard, manager took patty and slammed it against the wall without breaking eye contact #BanzaiLoveYou"

"Your managers are tyrants deserving of extreme reproach! I don't like getting tripped every time I get up from the table. #BanzaiLoveYou"

"Ordered a Whiskey River Burger the other week but the bun was loaded with springs! Thanks Red Robin. Teeth are expensive! #BanzaiLoveYou"

"#banzailoveyou Red Robin, where Bottomless Fries translates to 6 fries every 10 minutes!" -cyko

"I used to work at Red Robin and pee in the pickle buckets. Because who would really notice? #banzailoveyou" -Heywood

"stopped in red robin to torrent movies on the free wifi. ordered just coffee and the manager kicked us out! #banzailoveyou "

"Red Robin server dropped my burger..picked it up..put it on plate..served it to me.. thought I didn't notice. YUM! fuckers.. #BanzaiLoveYou" -Liz Darwin

"i just robbed a red robin. they have been very polite to me and handed me a lot of cash. i would do it again. #banzailoveyou" -Kuraz

"We thought the green bun was a St. Patricks Day promotion, but soon realized St. Patricks Day was several months away. #BanzaiLoveYou" -me

"tweeting from the hospital because the red robin waiter peed in the coffee #banzailoveyou" -trevor

"#banzailoveyou i found a rat in my onion soup. when i told them they gave me a new onion soup with soap in it. im never going back again!" -octowin

"I went to Red Robin once on my way to the library. While I was there, the library caught fire. Thanks, Red Robin. #banzailoveyou"

"Red Robin has an international menu but it is distinctly lacking chicken feet, stinky tofu or cat stew. Chinese food fail! #banzailoveyou"

[rbcp]

Carlito from madhouselive.com is currently at a Pennsylvania Red Robin, negotiating a truce with the PLA. Wish him luck, everyone.

[Cyclopath]

Don't forget to write "Cactus? Cactus? Cactus? Cactus? #banzailoveyou"

[Cyclopath]

https://twitter.com/#!/CyclopathPhreak

While I was @redrobinburgers Pranknet tricked an employee into activating the Ansul and breaking all the windows #BanzaiLoveYou

Made that Twitter account just for the occasion.

[rbcp]

Red Robin has began fighting back.  After a few days of our crazy tweets, they sent out an email to all the customers on their email list, telling them about the contest and encouraging everyone to tweet.  They've also been regularly announcing the contest on their Twitter, like every few hours to keep the posts coming in.  I'm sure it has at least a little to do with us.  The legitimate posts have been coming in faster than we can all post nonsense.

There's been some awesome posts since I made the article about all of this on phonelosers.org, though.  Someone created a fake Red Robin Twitter account and used it to encourage everyone to read the contest rules.  The link it went to was goatse.  That was right around the time Red Robin began begging customers to tweet.  So I guess it's kind of over for us, unless we think we can keep up with their 50 legitimate posts per hour.  Maybe after a week or two they'll think we're gone and we can start up again.

[rbcp]

https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23banzailoveyou

I just noticed something interesting.  Even though Red Robin is still tweeting about their contest every single day, presumably to keep us from writing crazy things about them, they aren't receiving as many responses anymore.  I wonder if their followers did all their Red Robin tweeting last week and are tired of trying.  Today there are only 9 tweets with that hashtag, even though Red Robin encouraged everyone to respond earlier today.

I'm going to start posting crazy things again and see what happens.

[Cyclopath]

Hell, it could be the company was using sockpuppets to spam the hash tag to push our tweets out of view.

[nomadcowatbk]

Mitt Romney
https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Mitt2012