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MoD tweet: ‘glass monstrosities’ builder should be ‘hung for treason’

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By Ishbel Macleod, PR and social media consultant

August 23, 2013 | 1 min read

The problem of handling a personal and a work account on the same management system is that sometimes there can be a slip-up, and a message gets sent from your work account: something which the social media manager for the Ministry of Defence has discovered.Now deleted, a tweet was sent suggesting that ‘whoever allowed these glass monstrosities to be built should be hung for treason by the City of London’.The MoD has insisted that this is not the view of the ministry.

Last year, a council press officer quit his job after tweeting that the town centre could be improved if it was napalmed.
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