Murdoch's Twitter typo blasts Aussie telco

Reported by By ninemsn staff
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's crash course in Twitter continues to draw attention for the wrong reasons with the News boss launching an accidental tirade against Optus instead of President Obama.

"Seems like universal anger with Optus from all sorts of normal supporters," the billionaire publisher wrote to his 140,000 followers late yesterday, seeming to suggest the Singapore-based Australian telco supports illegal downloading.

"Maybe backing pirates a rare miscalculation by friend Axelrod."

Murdoch intended to write "POTUS" rather an Optus, a commonly used acronym for the President of the United States of America.

The gaffe was seized on immediately with managing director of the ABC Mark Scott tweeting, "Cheers at Telstra, confusion at Optus — and amusement from the Potus team."

However, Murdoch was quick to correct his autocorrect error.

"Yes, thanks, of course I meant POTUS," the octogenarian tweeted minutes later.

"Somehow iPad changed my spelling. I should have checked. Sorry."

It’s not the first time that Murdoch has had to clear up his comments on Twitter.

Earlier this year his wife Wendi Deng forced him to apologise for writing "maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke country."

17/05/2012 10:16Sydney, Australia. 17 May,2012
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