The rather convincing looking sidebar advert from the Taco Bell Truck Twitter page.
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"Taco Bell Truck": Free Tacos? Sorry, Just Another Twitter Fake
Free Tacos? Come on Now ..
I saw a Tweet on Twitter about a user named "Taco Bell Truck". Curiosity got the best of me and I clicked on the link. Supposedly there is a truck that drives around handing out free Taco Bell tacos. The page has listings for the West Coast in Huntington Beach (June 20), Los Angeles (June 21 and 22), Phoenix (June 25 and 26) and Albuquerque (June 27 and 28). Hummm, free tacos? It seemed too good to be true so I slipped on my cyber detective hat and went to the Taco Bell website to see if there was any information posted about it.http://twitter.com/tacobelltruck
Bio: We drive around the country, handing out free Taco Bell tacos to people. What's not to like?
There was no mention of the Taco Bell Truck at the website so I called the toll free customer service line. Calling them on a Saturday morning probably wasn't the best idea but I had to get to the bottom of this quandary. I heard the prerecorded message about how valuable I am to them and to please hold the line for the next available guest representative about 40 times. I was tempted to hang up and call back during the week but I was on a mission.
Michelle came on the line and asked for my name and phone number, after giving her that I told her about the Taco Bell Truck page at Twitter and she let out a very hearty laugh. "If there was such a thing, I'm sure there would be commercials about it". I told her I didn't see anything on the website so I decided to call and get to the bottom of things. I didn't call without checking Google and a few other websites to see if there was any mentioning of the "free taco" offer from the Taco Bell Truck. The closest I could come to a "free taco" was a promotion that Taco Bell had in October and that was a regional campaign.
- Taco Bell Truck
- People that need to get a life ...
Comments
If these responses to your post were legitimate people "correcting" your error, I seriously doubt they would be using the insulting tone I sense in some of the posts. Sounds like someone got busted and is pissed off about it. Haha!
Taco Bell Truck
(Guest)
(Guest)
09/08/2009
I don't know about free taco's but the The Taco Bell truck has been parked at my Hotel for the past 5 nights! Gone during the day! Just North of Boston in Woburn, MA.
@Taco Lover Thanks for the hit ... if Taco Bell has no clue about their "promotions" then it's their fault not mine. I do so love getting comments like this ... please, visit often.
Taco Lover
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(Guest)
09/03/2009
This is why the internet is being ruined. People like this idiot "Freakmamma" do the barest of research on pages like Wikipedia and then pronounce something as being either legitimate or not. Well, guess what Freakmamma, the Taco Bell truck exists! How do I know? My very own eyes you dope! The real-deal Taco Bell truck is sitting in front of my building here in NYC! Guess what else? They are giving away Tacos too! Next time try doing a little more due dilligence when researching something. I would start by calling someone in Corp. Communications, not the stupid 800 number Customer Service operator on a Saturday. What an A-Hole!
SchmidtUltra
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(Guest)
08/10/2009
Yeah, this truck does look pretty fake:
http://www.grubgrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Taco-Bell-Truck.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/22/automobiles/480-taco-bell.jpg
http://blogs.pitch.com/fatcity/tacobelltruckkansas.jpg
If only the taco Bell Truck was real...
GinaS
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(Guest)
07/16/2009
Turns out that Taco Bell truck is the real deal; here's their schedule and some exec quotes on the campaign: http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/Taco-Tweets-And-Free-Taco-Bell-Treats
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/gspadoni
Krazy Kelly
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(Guest)
07/15/2009
The Taco Bell Truck was featured about the 7th or 8th inning of the MLB All-Star game, with announcer Joe Buck even making the tacos! So Freakmama, we're waiting for a retraction ...
It's true
(Guest)
(Guest)
07/14/2009
watching the all-star game now and Krazy Kelly is right...Joe Buck just talked about the taco bell truck and it's free tacos - while handing out tacos himself.
Krazy Kelly
(Guest)
(Guest)
07/10/2009
The Taco Bell Truck is very real. My cousin works on the project. It was in downtown St. Louis today -- being filmed by FOX Sports! You'll see it on their MLB All-Star Game coverage (there's your proof, brain surgeon). It'll also be at the All-Star Game Fanfest giving away FREE tacos & burritos. Maybe you should send someone you know in St. Louis down there.
So glad you said earlier that this would get you more exposure ... it just provdes you are a bad journalist who doesn't do their research!
CMC
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(Guest)
07/10/2009
Actually the taco bell truck is real. It's a promotional thing that one of my friends is ACTUALLY doing. She is driving around in a taco bell truck to EVENTS giving out tacos. They aren't driving around randomly, they are at events.
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