{"id":2628,"date":"2009-01-20T03:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T03:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:19:11","slug":"how-twitter-can-help-you-fix-your-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/twitter\/how-twitter-can-help-you-fix-your-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter can help you fix your toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2629\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px 8px\" title=\"judystoilet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/judystoilet.jpg\" alt=\"Inside of a toilet tank\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/>The next time\u00a0you have problems with your toilet, just check in with Scott\u00a0Soncray,\u00a0aka The Twitter Plumber, who goes by <a title=\"Toncray&#039;s tweets\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stoncray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@stoncray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"snap_preview\">\n<p>Scott,\u00a0director of communications for a nonprofit,\u00a0is one of the thousands&#8211;perhaps millions of Twitterers&#8211;who helps a fellow Twitterer in need.\u00a0Take, for example, the annoying problem of a running toilet.\u00a0When PR pro Judy Lederman of JSL\u00a0Publicity &amp; Marketing, who goes by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/judysl\">@judysl<\/a>,\u00a0couldn&#8217;t figure out what to do to make the water stop running, she turned to\u00a0Twitter\u00a0for help.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, it turns out, had just fixed his toilet, so he coached Judy through the entire repair job, with some help from a few photos that Judy took with her cell phone camera. At his News to Me\u00a0blog, he\u00a0recreated the\u00a0back and forth Twitter conversation, complete with twitpics of the toilet, which Judy took with her\u00a0cell phone camera.<\/p>\n<p>Judy is forever grateful. Now she needs somebody to help her replace her\u00a0garage door mechanism because she just bought a\u00a0kit from Home Depot.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;m headed over to Twitter to check through my archives.\u00a0Bogie, our\u00a0German Shorthaired Pointer puppy, chewed a ballpoint pen on the floor in my office and I need to remove ink stains from the carpet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the same thing happened several months ago in the living room,\u00a0I tweeted about it, asked for\u00a0help and was inundated with responses.\u00a0Unfortunately, I called a professional carpet cleaner who ended up ruining the carpet.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&#8217;ll be Twitter to the rescue. I just wish I knew which of the 17 suggestions to try. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time\u00a0you have problems with your toilet, just check in with Scott\u00a0Soncray,\u00a0aka The Twitter Plumber, who goes by @stoncray. Scott,\u00a0director of communications for a nonprofit,\u00a0is one of the thousands&#8211;perhaps millions of Twitterers&#8211;who helps a fellow Twitterer in need.\u00a0Take, for example, the annoying problem of a running toilet.\u00a0When PR pro Judy Lederman of JSL\u00a0Publicity &amp;\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/twitter\/how-twitter-can-help-you-fix-your-toilet\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":4,"wds_primary_category":683,"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[619],"class_list":{"0":"post-2628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-twitter","7":"tag-photos-graphics","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42155,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/42155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}