Patriots apologize after thanking racist tweeter

[KamaAina]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/patriots-apologize-thanking-racist-tweeter-154145412--nfl.html

The New England Patriots are apologizing after sending out a tweet to thank a ''fan'' with a racist Twitter handle.

The Patriots were holding a promotion to celebrate becoming the first NFL team with 1 million Twitter followers.

The team asked fans to retweet a message about the achievement. For each fan who did so, an automated system generated a message that included an image of a jersey with that person's Twitter handle on it.

When someone with a racist Twitter handle retweeted the message, the system generated an image of a Patriots jersey with the racist name on the back.

Twitter doesn't block racist handles?

[KamaAina]

1. You're dying to see the tweet, aren't you?

h/t Blue_Tires from Teh Longue

[RockaFowler]

2. They had this up for an hour

Someone in that organization didn't notice it for an hour??

[joeybee12]

3. Sounds like it was automated replies...

But how can you sign up for Twitter with that name????

[mythology]

4. Twitter doesn't block much

That's one of the reasons it's used for a lot of internet harassment.