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The dangers of not tweeting it yourself

Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz was not available for comment. Photograph: Rex Features/Columbia

Channel 4 horseracing commentator Simon Holt (@plumptonraceday) wasn't hedging his bets when he tweeted this message at 5.18pm on Tuesday: "Oh and by the way, I want your hot body tonight babe. xxxxx." Minutes later, he apparently realised what he had done and tweeted: "The previous message was sent in error! Please ignore unless you are Cameron Diaz or my wife." Worse, reports the Daily Mirror, it turns out that Holt didn't write either of the tweets – his Twitter account is ghostwritten by local newspaper racing columnist Jason Hall, who was sending a message to his wife and accidentally tweeted it in Holt's stream. Memo to all pundits: do your own Twitter work and you won't come a cropper.

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