Sky news apologises after tweeting during the two minutes' silence

Very rarely do I sign up to Twitter news feeds - mainly because they're so relentless.

You just get bombarded with update after update and everything else can get a bit swamped.

Naturally they are, of course, automatically generated.

And yesterday Sky News came a cropper after it updated twice within a two minute period.

Unfortunately that two minute period was the silence at 11am on November 11th, when the nation came to a halt to remember our war dead.

In apologising the news giant said: "We are sorry our automated feeds engine posted two updates during the Twitter silence for Armistice Day. They were promptly deleted."

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