Twitter mistakes – kudos to @friendsreunited for a quick fix_

With the horrible events of yesterday afternoon, it was particularly sad to see a rather large twitter mistake and some sickening Facebook posts. In fact, I still need to relax a little before writing about the Facebook stuff!

Someone at the Friends Reunited twitter account made a pretty sick judgement call, as you can see from this screenshot:

Friends Reunited twitter mistakes

It smacks of cashing in on a trending topic, which was just plain disgusting. You may notice I haven’t referred to the events in this article so I’m not guilty of the same!

And I was about to rant about it but checked their feed first, to see some pretty quick action had been taken:

friendsreunited fix mistake

I’m a cynical chap, but not so cynical as to think this was all part of a plan. But I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for more twitter mistakes!

 

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Jonathan Gwyer first delved into geekery with a ZX81 in 1981 and has been working in IT since 1990. A Microsoft Certified Professional with many years of large corporate experience and training, he now focuses on helping small businesses make the most of their IT.

Twitter mistakes – kudos to @friendsreunited for a quick fix

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