Ashes mania - An American gets a chance to fly to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 through her Twitter account
As the first Test match ends up in a stalemate, the war of the words between the English and Australian supporters and fans takes up a whole new level. The battle would be relished by the fans and even other avid cricket-crazy people who are stretched far
and beyond. But there is one country oblivious to all the hue and cry about the Ashes, The United States of America.
Twitter - the micro blogging website, was the place where an American woman with the account name @theashes was left clueless as her account was bombarded by messages about the series being held in Australia.
The series fans from all over the world who shared their thoughts and delights about Aussie Peter Siddle’s six wickets on the first day or record breaking innings by England’s Alistair Cook and Jonathan Trott on the fifth day have been doing so by adding
#TheAshes or #Ashes to their posts - the “#” sign ensures that the contributors could see their post. This also helps the website in monitoring the “trending topic” (most discussed) of the day.
And indeed, Ashley Kerekes was the trending topic for the past five days as most of the people mistakenly typed @theashes in their messages. The cricket lover’s messages were directed to a not-so-cricket fan, Kerekes from Westfield, Massachusetts.
She remained clueless for few days but the anger started to take its toll when she replied around six Ashes fans that had done the humble mistake that she is not a cricket match. She blasted on them as she said to “stop mentioning” her and “check profiles
before you send messages.”
The equally clueless fans found the response amusing and began to re-tweet the message which were passed to a hundred more, she was on the verge of pulling her hair out as a ticked off message revealed “ I AM NOT A FREAKING CRICKET MATCH.”
As the news got around among the cricket fans, “mischief” was the word on most Ashes fan’s minds as they encouraged more people to follow @theashes for reliable updates about the series.
As her 300 followers increased to 6,400 since the fourth day of the Ashes, she came to terms with her new found fame. She explained that she did not know anything about the game as she tweeted “what the h**l is a wicket?”
The cricket fans then started a whole new campaign, #gettheashestotheashes, with Kerekes offering a self-designed t-shirt with the slogan “I am not a freaking cricket match” at a website. All the money collected from the sale of $19.90 shirt would be going
to the campaign.
This campaign caught the eye of Qantas Airways who are now offering the 22-year-old babysitter a free trip to the land down under with the help of official Ashes sponsor, Vodafone.
The Ashes series would be wrapping up on January 7th 2011 and Ms Kerekes said she is very keen to take up the offer. Vodafone tweeted on their official account saying “We want to #gettheashestotheashes so @theashes can get over here we’ll pony
up #theashes tickets and a phone so she can tweet.”
However, Kerekes is now asking for a ticket for her boyfriend as well who gave her the nickname “Ashes” in the first place.
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