Tweet revenge: Italians bombard EU summit wall with Silvio Berlusconi insults
Giant screens at Brussels meeting display Twitter epithets calling Italian PM 'a mafioso' and 'a paedophile'
Alright, now claim that Twittin' is silly & useless, unbelievers!Postings on the microblogging site tagged "#EUCO" were automatically fed to a pair of large plasma screens in the main hall of the Brussels building in which the 27 leaders of Europe were meeting to discuss a response to the eurozone debt crisis.And get this: Potential hurt feelings, as if the alleged sensibilities of a delegation of pedophiliac mafiosi are important.
But soon after it was launched yesterday, Italian twitter users found out about it and flooded it with anti-Berlusconi messages.
After only two hours, the "tweet-wall" was replaced by anodyne footage of the summit proceedings and the European Council logo.
"Berlusconi pays for sex, for votes, for mafia protection, for everything he can buy. What he cannot buy will be stolen," one tweet read.
"Berlusconi is a mafioso but he make laws for be not judged," said another.
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But it was the messages sent by mpietropoli, an Italian designer, that caused the council press team to take down the system when he started bombarding it with quotes from the Italian leader, including some praising Mussolini.
"Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile," he posted – a quote from the PM.
"[I cannot] think that there are so many pricks around who would vote against their own best interests," mpietropoli also tweeted – another Berlusconi quote.
"The point was not to show insulting messages about Berlusconi. If anyone from the Italian delegation saw it, it would hurt their sensibility."You know, if their feelings are so hurt because their boss is a piece of shit, maybe they should have a coup d'etât or something, followed by a permanent vacation in
*It'sa OK, paisan, we a one too!!
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