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Wide World of social media

The social media team at Nine’s Wide World of Sports has been furiously ramping up for one of its biggest events of the year, the first State of Origin clash.

But in their flurry of activity someone obviously got their social media platforms confused earlier today, tweeting a picture of a blue square and a maroon square and asking people to ‘like’  “the colour which will win tonight!”.

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The same promotion seemed to be working more effectively on Facebook though:
Screen Shot 2015-05-27 at 2.55.46 pmIt was quickly spotted and pulled down, and replaced by the more appropriate “Retweet the colour you think will win tonight”.

Screen Shot 2015-05-27 at 2.59.50 pm HT: Carrington Bingham

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