There were some very pecular goings on in Twitter land today, as the account of Kirsty Allsopp seemed to be taking potshots at Sir Alan Sugar:

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The only problem? She didn’t post that message, despite a bit of confusion and the fact that the pair of them had a very public argument recently.

It seems like it might be an easy thing to work out: so far, the compromiser is apparently making all of their posts from an iPhone.

Not so long ago, her account was hijacked and started sending out iPad spam. Methinks this time around she’ll be lucky not to get a “You’re fired” from Sir Alan…

Christopher Boyd

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