Vodafone make homophobic twitter comment

A small twitter backlash erupted this afternoon, as a tweet from the official Vodafone UK twitter site said “is fed up of dirty homo's and is going after beaver”.

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Thursday, 2 September 2010
5 February 2010
A small twitter backlash erupted this afternoon, as a tweet from the official Vodafone UK twitter site said “is fed up of dirty homo's and is going after beaver”.

The comment was quickly removed but not before being retweeted on the micro blogging site, with several users questioning whether Vodafone's twitter account had been hacked.

Since the comment, Vodaphone has been tweeting multiple users with the reply: “We weren't hacked. A severe breach of rules by staff in our building, dealing with that internally. We're very sorry”.

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- 2/9/2010 12:12:44 PM

Do I recall Vodafone also having problems with staff in a shop making homophobic comments to a customer last year, hope not, its the only mobile internet hookup I've had that works and I dont want to have to protest by binning it!

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- 2/7/2010 1:20:22 PM

I'm more concerned by the awful grammar than by the (possible) homophobic sentiment. When will people learn how to use apostrophes?

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- 2/6/2010 6:35:03 PM

I don't think I've ever met a man who was bad enough to make me want to go straight. It would be like preferring to be a raspberry sponge pudding - totally unimaginable. (Hope this is not phobic against raspberry sponge puddings. Some of my best desserts have been raspberry sponge puddings).

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- 2/6/2010 5:48:36 PM

read the article again, and act like a humna being, rather than a gay (everybody is against us) activist clearly whoever wrote that is indeed "a gay" and has probably been on a date and not had the guy call back (or something similar) have you ever been pissed off with a guy you like and uttered something along the lines of "screw this, being striaght has gotta be easier"

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- 2/6/2010 9:29:48 AM

It's the little things like this that remind us the fight is never over. There's still a lot of people out there that still don't get it.

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- 2/6/2010 7:41:22 AM

{“We weren't hacked. A severe breach of rules by staff in our building, dealing with that internally. We're very sorry”}. EXCUSE OR COVERUP....... THE SAME THING!!!

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