Sky News apologises after breaking Twitter silence
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Sky News has apologised after it accidentally broke a two minute silence on Twitter that was backed by the Royal British Legion.
Websites and newspapers, including Sky News, had promoted the #2minutesilence campaign. It was hoped that users would not post tweets for two minutes from 11am on 11 November.
"2 minute silence on Twitter 11:00am GMT on 11 November #2minutesilence RT plz" was re-tweeted thousands of times in the run up to the silence and #2minutesilence became a top trending topic.
Sky News and BBC Business both sent out tweets during the silence. The tweets from @skynews, which had been sent out by automatic feeds, were deleted and an apology issued.
Some Twitter users say they are now boycotting the @skynews feed. Sky News have contacted some of the complainants individually to say they will take measures to ensure it does not happen again.
Times journalist Caitlin Moran also apologised after she accidentally tweeted during the silence. She tweeted: "Argh I tweeted during the two-minute silence! I just literally didn't know what time it was. I am very, very sorry. I am the new Jan Moir."
