14 DAY TRIAL // Twitter is a great social platform to share your thoughts and Microsoft seems to know this very well, after the company mistakenly posted a message insulting political commentator and syndicated columnist Ann Coulter.
Liberal economist Robert Reich posted a Twitter message a few days ago, informing his followers that his weekend activities include visiting his granddaughter and meeting Ann Coulter.
Someone using Microsoft’s account joined the conversation, but posted quite an insulting message.
“@RBReich your granddaughter’s level of discourse and policy > those of Ann Coulter,” the tweet read.
The message was obviously removed very quickly, but the editors over at Politico managed to take a screenshot before the Microsoft employee who manages the Twitter account noticed it.
The Redmond-based technology company says this was only a mistake and it’s a good thing that the message was removed so fast.
“[The] tweet obviously is not an official statement by the company,” Microsoft said.
“One of the people who manages our corporate twitter account thought he was tweeting from their personal twitter account on Saturday morning but tweeted from our corporate account by mistake…That person immediately realized his mistake and deleted the tweet from our corporate account. We have taken steps to help ensure that this kind of mistake doesn’t happen again,” Microsoft spokeswoman Christina Pearson added, according to The Blaze.
Ann Coulter hasn’t released a comment on the matter, while Robert Reich hasn’t replied to Microsoft’s message on Twitter.
Microsoft currently has 299,264 followers and follows a total of 810 users on Twitter. What’s more, it tweeted 3,113 messages since it created the account and it uses the account to let its followers know about product launches and important events concerning the company.