fabulis & The Twitterverse vs. Citibank: A Case Study on the Power of Social Media to Change Corporations http://bit.ly/bGgmwM
fabuils accepts formal apology from citi. http://bit.ly/arJX0e
Inside the citi circus, by Jason Goldberg, fabulis. http://bit.ly/dzHEwB
Hi everyone. Jason Goldberg here, founder and ceo of fabulis.
In a bit of strange and disturbing news, fabulis discovered today that someone(s) at Citibank had decided arbitrarily to block fabulis’ bank account due to what was described to us on the phone as “objectionable content” on our blog. In fact, the account — it turns out — was blocked a few days ago without anyone letting us know about it by phone or email.
Huh?
Mind you, fabulis is a serious business, backed by some serious players, and for the life of us we can’t find anything “objectionable” on our blog besides some good humor, some business insights, and some touching coming out stories from some great and fabulis gay people.
So, what gives?
And wtf. When did Citibank start reviewing blogs to decide who can bank with them?
Calls into Citibank tonight resulted in a temporary lifting of the block while a compliance officer is asked to re-review our website on Thursday.
Stay tuned … we’ll update you on this shocker as we learn more.
I promise you that if we do not get a good response to this on Thursday we are moving our bank account to a bank that respects and appreciates our business.
New fabulis homepage launched, with videos! Get a free t-shirt! http://bit.ly/92QEzx
RT @paidContent: Socialmedian’s Jason Goldberg has raised $625k for new site Fabulis; WashingtonPost is an investor http://bit.ly/bVq8uZ
The former owner of the “fabulis” twitter ID decided voluntarily to hand it over to us today. We love him. Thanks!
You can now follow fabulis on Twitter. We’ll start tweeting shortly.
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The fabulis blog is now up and running.
Bradford and I will be posting items more relevant to founding fabulis often over there, while I will continue to post broader startup and entrepreneurship items here at betashop. Realistically that means I will be doing more there, and less here, as starting a new company is more than a fulltime gig.
I highly encourage you to tune in the fabulis blog to follow us step by step as we create and launch fabulis.
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