The way Twitter would crop images is something I’d just come to accept. If I posted something outside of its limitations, I would just have to hope that folks would click to see the full image or hope that the image was cropped at a decent spot in the picture.
But no more!
A moment of silence to all of my past posts that suffered from The Twitter Crop.
And a moment of silence to those who mastered the fine art of “click for a surprise!”
People that tweet “open for surprise” pic.twitter.com/h8YDQ0mN8F
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Women Belong In Kitchen : Burger King Apologises For Tweet Amid Uproar Burger King s United Kingdom division sparked an outcry Monday as critics accused the brand of using a sexist trope as clickbait.
Updated: March 09, 2021 8:12 am IST
Amid outrage on social media, Burger King deleted the tweet and posted an apology.
Highlights
The brand tweeted an apology and then deleted the original tweet
Company s US-based nonprofit arm published full-page ad in New York Times
Burger King opted to take on gender disparity in the restaurant industry with a new culinary scholarship program and a tweet: Women belong in the kitchen. It did not go over well.
Chandigarh, March 9
American multinational fast food chain Burger King have deleted the sexist tweet which attracted a lot of backlash on International Women’s Day when it posted “Women belong in the kitchen”.
It cited abusive comments under the original tweet as a reason for deleting it after apologising.
We hear you. We got our initial tweet wrong and we’re sorry. Our aim was to draw attention to the fact that only 20% of professional chefs in UK kitchens are women and to help change that by awarding culinary scholarships. We will do better next time. Burger King (@BurgerKingUK) March 8, 2021