Vodafone urges gay community, "Please keep your faith in us"

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Vodafone has admitted that it was a member of staff and not a hacker who caused outrage on Friday by sending out a homophobic rant to its 10,000 followers on Twitter.

Followers on the popular social networking site were stunned when the official Vodafone Twitter page posted the comment:

“VodafoneUK is fed up with dirty homo’s (sic) and is going after beaver.”

After being inundated with emails from subscribers who feared the Twitter account had been hacked, Vodafone stated:

“We weren't hacked. A severe breach of rules by staff in our building, dealing with that internally. We're very sorry,” and followed it up by pleading:

“Please keep your faith in us.”

Vodafone is the world's largest mobile telecommunication network company and has a market value of about £71.2 billion.

It currently has operations in 31 countries and partner networks in a further 40 countries.


Source: pinknews