Travel blog apologises after claiming Edinburgh is in England

The Magical Locations on Earth weblog posted {a photograph} of Victoria Avenue in Edinburgh with the caption “Edinburgh, England” adopted by a Union flag emoji.

Bosses behind the weblog, which has greater than 15,000 followers on Twitter, mentioned they had been ‘deeply sorry’ for the blunder and confirmed they fired the social media intern who posted it.

One consumer mentioned: “Significantly? You are not certified to run this account clearly”, whereas one other posted: “Would have thought {that a} web page referred to as ‘Magical Locations On Earth’ would have a primary grasp of geography or, on the very least, be capable of search one thing on Google.”

One other posted: “Get again to highschool in your failed geography – Northern Eire is a rustic, together with Wales, Scotland and England within the UK and Edinburgh is the capital of the nation, Scotland.”

Another person added: “Dangerous mistake however good lesson on how one can lose followers.

“Edinburgh is in Scotland and isn’t related in any approach to England.

“Purchase a map or do no matter it takes to get your info proper.”

Following the backlash, the corporate tweeted: “Correction, it is Scotland.

“We deeply apologise for our earlier tweet about Edinburgh.

“We simply fired out social media internee.

The account holder, primarily based in Pakistan, mentioned they had been a scholar and that English was not their first language.

They mentioned they began the weblog alone however obtained extra folks concerned over time.

Talking on the situation of anonymity, the blogger mentioned: “I am a scholar so I am not getting sufficient time for this.

“So I employed somebody from my college who contacted me first telling me he’s all for managing my accounts as an intern.

“Final night time when he posted that tweet I obtained too many studies on my Twitter accounts.

“One of many causes behind firing him was clearly the backlash by the group which was past hysteric.”

The blogger mentioned they had been involved Twitter may droop the account which they “labored very exhausting on”.

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