Habitat Apologies After Twitter Hashtag Spam Campaign

UK’s renowned furniture store Habitat has made an apology after it was accused of promoting offers at its stores by using keywords related to Iranian elections as well as the high-profile iPhone 3GS launch on its Twitter feeds. The group running HabitatUK Twitter account were using keywords, known as “hashtags”, to their twitter updates, so as to make sure that the company’s feeds appeared among the hot “trending topics” on the...