Chinese phone maker Huawei punishes employees for iPhone tweet blunder


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  • Friday, 04 Jan 2019

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HONG KONG: China’s Huawei Technologies has punished two employees for New Year greetings sent on the smartphone maker’s official Twitter account using an iPhone, an internal memo showed. 

Huawei, whose P-series handsets compete with Apple’s iPhone, on New Year’s Day wished followers a ”Happy -2019” in a tweet marked sent ”via Twitter for iPhone”. 

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