State Department Apologizes For Spring Break Tweets
The tweets, which began earlier this month, contain spelling mistakes, weird tips and offensive suggestions about other countries. Social media users lashed out at the tweets.
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne. The State Department wants you to have a safe spring break. Tweeting travel tips under the hashtag Spring Breaking Badly, it sent a warning to travelers who might be lured into buying expensive drinks or situations where they could get robbed tweeting, not a 10 in the U.S.? Then not a 10 overseas. It apologized after Twitter erupted with responses like lonelygirl15 - stop spending my tax money calling me ugly. It's MORNING EDITION.
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