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10-04-2016, 02:21 PM
British politician returns after Twitter hiatus, is immediately trolled
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LONDON — Conservative Party politician Michael Gove had been on a Twitter hiatus; until the last couple of days, **t a peep had been heard from the MP since mid-July.*
On Oct. 2, he decided to re-enter the tweeting game, firing off five tweets in the space of two days.
Most of these tweets were the generic stuff one expects from the account of a politician: fluff like, "Delighted for @edballs (https://twitter.com/edballs) - a labour victory we can all celebrate" and "Theresa May's speech today quite superb".
But then the former secretary of state for justice made a grave mistake indeed.
SEE ALSO: British politician becomes latest victim of sousaphone trolling (http://mashable.com/2015/07/28/sousaphone-jeremy-hunt/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/04/gove-twitter-return-backlash/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LONDON — Conservative Party politician Michael Gove had been on a Twitter hiatus; until the last couple of days, **t a peep had been heard from the MP since mid-July.*
On Oct. 2, he decided to re-enter the tweeting game, firing off five tweets in the space of two days.
Most of these tweets were the generic stuff one expects from the account of a politician: fluff like, "Delighted for @edballs (https://twitter.com/edballs) - a labour victory we can all celebrate" and "Theresa May's speech today quite superb".
But then the former secretary of state for justice made a grave mistake indeed.
SEE ALSO: British politician becomes latest victim of sousaphone trolling (http://mashable.com/2015/07/28/sousaphone-jeremy-hunt/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/04/gove-twitter-return-backlash/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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