Its bad news when a photo agency loses the art of timing
Written by duckrabbitIt’s 23.00 hrs GMT on Sunday 21st of August. Right now, as I am typing this, Tripoli is being stormed by the Libyan rebels. It’s a historic moment by any standards. Twitter is buzzing like never before.
Three minutes ago this tweet appeared on the feed:
One minute later this appears next to it:
Which takes you to this:
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Discussion (3 Comments)
Magnum ice creams. Walls lawyers will f**k them good style over this.
…however I should have added that unlike the real Magnum, this is tasteless……..
You would think, with agencies in four corners of the world, they would have at least one member of staff who (a) knew about Libya and (b) had access to switch up the auto-tweeting/auto-blogging feature they seem to be so fond of.
Bad ball-dropping from Magnum, but hardly their first or last.