Twitter Abuse

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It's pretty bad when a furniture company tries to get Twitter attention by indiscriminately plugging random popular hashtags into its Tweets. It's infinitely worse when this happens while Iranian protesters are using Twitter to communicate. Habitat, a British brand, is currently in hot water for Twittering things like "HabitatUK: #MOUSAVI Join the database for free to win a £1,000 gift card." The company, which says it never meant to exploit civil unrest in Iran for its own nefarious couch-shilling purposes, just released an apology statement. [BBC]