A Fake McDonald’s Twitter account has been suspended by the social media service for masquerading as an official Twitter account of McDonald’s Hong Kong — but not before it was able to pull off a prank more than nine months in the making. A spokesperson for McDonald’s has since released a statement on the matter, telling Gizmodo that McDonald’s was in no way affiliated with this Twitter account. “This is not a McDonald’s Twitter account but one that is impersonating a verified account,” said Terri Hickey, the manager of global corporate communications for McDonald’s. The post has since been deleted, but Gizmodo reports that it contained a video of a McDonald’s Hong Kong employee advertising the restaurant’s new cheesecake. Relax,” and then promptly resumed tweeting about McDonald’s promotions in Hong Kong.

Source: Fox News July 31, 2017 15:02 UTC