Huawei Punishes its Employees Over this iPhone Tweet Mistake

China’s Huawei, a phone maker in competition with Apple’s iPhone, punished its employees this week for an iPhone tweet blunder.

IIt was on New Year’s Day that the company had wished followers a “Happy #2019” in a tweet marked sent “via Twitter for iPhone.” Considering that the company’s P-series handsets compete with the iPhone, this was quite the blunder.

The company has punished two employees for the New Year greetings sent on the smartphone maker’s official Twitter account using an iPhone according to an internal memo.

“The traitor has revealed himself,” said one user on microblog Weibo.

The internal memo revealed that corporate senior vice-president and director of the board Chen Lifang said, “the incident caused damage to the Huawei brand.”

The company also said that the blunder occurred when outsourced social media handler Sapient experienced “VPN problems” with a desktop computer so used an iPhone with a roaming SIM card in order to send the message on time at midnight.

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