Saucy: Heinz is just the latest brand to accidentally post porn

Heinz is apologizing after a German man scanned a QR code on the back of one its ketchup bottles -- and it directed him to porn. The company blamed it on an expired domain and offered him a free bottle of ketchup. Heinz isn’t the first -- nor is it, we hope, the last -- brand or publisher to accidentally expose its customers to porn. Last year, US Airways broke the Internet when it tweeted a picture of a toy plane sticking out from a woman’s nether region. Tweeting porn appears to be a regular past time on local television station feeds, too: Time Warner Cable News in Austin inexplicably posted gay porn in a tweet that was supposed to pertain to traffic and the CBS affiliate in Memphis posted a link to porn instead of to its radar. The post Saucy: Heinz is just the latest brand to accidentally post porn appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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