David Cameron famously claimed that too many tweets make a t**t. He failed to heed his own warning, however, after endorsing an obscene message that mocked the Tory grandee Lord Tebbit and William Hague, the Foreign Secretary.
The gaffe came about after he used the microblogging site to send his condolences to the Kenyan President for the attack on the Nairobi shopping mall. It prompted one user to respond by writing: “Please call off @WilliamJHague, hasn’t Kenya suffered enough today?”
The message was posted by a user whose Twitter profile mocked the former Conservative Party chairman Lord Tebbit, making a sexual innuendo about his appearance in a photograph taken after the Brighton bombing of 1984. Inexplicably, Mr Cameron’s account “favourited” the tweet, despite its offensive