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The Straight Story

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Wed Sep 11, 2013, 03:40 PM Sep 2013

AT&T Uses 9/11 To Promote A Cell Phone

This tweet was up on AT&T 's official account for about an hour before being pulled




AT&T apologized with another tweet shortly after the previous one was taken down, seen below.

We apologize to anyone who felt our post was in poor taste. The image was solely meant to pay respect to those affected by the 9/11 tragedy.
— AT&T (@ATT) September 11, 2013

Just about everyone on Twitter is outraged, with many expressing gratitude that they're not AT&T customers, and some even threatening to switch mobile service providers.

.@ATT your cool photoshop makes the memories of watching my parents cry in front of the television a lot easier to deal with today.
— Ryan Broderick (@ryanpbroderick) September 11, 2013

"We apologize to anyone who felt our post was in poor taste." boycott a company that uses a national tragedy as a marketing ploy! @att

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/att-911-tweet_n_3907977.html

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AT&T Uses 9/11 To Promote A Cell Phone (Original Post) The Straight Story Sep 2013 OP
this is almost as bad as using 9/11 to promote a war.. frylock Sep 2013 #1
I could just hug you for that comment!!!! dixiegrrrrl Sep 2013 #2

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. I could just hug you for that comment!!!!
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 08:43 PM
Sep 2013

Exactly.....
Makes one wonder if he/they even paused to put 2+2 together?




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