March 19, 2024
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Huawei has recently cut off the pay and have demoted of two of its employees after they used an iPhone to tweet a New Year’s greeting from the company’s official Twitter account.

According to a memo seen by both  Reuters and Bloomberg, the company’s corporate senior vice president Chen Lifang said that the incident had caused damage to the Huawei brand. In addition to the demotion and a 5,000 yuan monthly pay cut, the January 3rd memo said that one of the employees would also see their pay rank frozen for 12 months.

According to the internal memo the incident occurred after its external social media agency, Sapient, experienced VPN problems with its PC. VPNs allow access to Twitter from inside China. As a workaround, an iPhone fitted with a foreign SIM card was used to send the tweet. According to the Huawei memo the incident exposed flaws in our processes and management.

The original tweet has now been deleted, tweet was widely mocked across Twitter and tech publications like 9to5Mac. The replacement tweet, which was sent from Twitter Media Studio, currently has 289 replies, most of them referencing the original.

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