By LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press
NEW YORK – An epic Twitter FAIL for fashion designer Kenneth Cole on Thursday led him to apologize for a tweet that used the crisis in Cairo to promote his spring line.
The offensive tweet touched off an online flash mob and inspired a fake Twitter feed that mocked Cole’s original while attracting thousands of followers on the micro-blogging site in a matter of hours.
The tweet from (at)KennethCole read: “Millions are in an uproar in (hashtag) Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online.”