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Furniture Store Habitat Caught Exploiting Iran Via Twitter

Furniture Store Habitat Caught Exploiting Iran Via Twitter

BBC News reports that the furniture chain Habitat is very, very sorry for using keywords such as “Iran” and “Mousavi” to drive sales via Twitter. The tweets were posted last week and have since been removed, but in case you missed the poetry of this particular brand of badvertising, here’s one sample: #MOUSAVI Join the database for free to win a £1,000 gift card!