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July 21, 2012 12:30 am GMT

CelebBoutique Misguided Aurora Tweet Sparks Twitter Outrage




CelebBoutique, an online store that lets people fashion themselves after their favorite celebrities, learned an important social media lesson the hard way today -- always check the reason for a Twitter Trend before making a joke about it.

The tweet above was in response to the Twitter hashtag#Aurora, which was trending because of a mass shooting that occurred at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo.

CelebBoutique, which is based in the United Kingdom, left the Tweet up for about an hour, during which time it was retweeted hundreds of times. A Facebook group calling for a boycott of the company has already sprung up.

The incident has a great deal in commo…
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