{"id":26719,"date":"2013-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/26719\/fake-beirut-city-centre-twitter-account-angers-alcohol-lovers-during-ramadan"},"modified":"2013-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T00:00:00","slug":"fake-beirut-city-centre-twitter-account-angers-alcohol-lovers-during-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/26719\/fake-beirut-city-centre-twitter-account-angers-alcohol-lovers-during-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Beirut City Centre Twitter Account Angers Alcohol Lovers During Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a strange turn of events, an unknown Twitter user sparked Internet fury and confusion on Monday when they  impersonated Beirut City Centre by responding to questions about whether the mall was banning alcohol during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>  It all started with this question from Twitter user @MrR0land:  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrR0land\">@MrR0land<\/a> We Follow our head quarters in dubai during Ramadan, sorry for the inconvenient but the majority of the visitors are Muslims<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 trapped (@beicitycentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beicitycentre\/statuses\/356742031969759232\">July 15, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  Sparks then began to fly on social media when <a href=\"https:\/\/ginosblog.com\/2013\/07\/15\/blacklisted-beirut-city-centre-forcing-sharia-law\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Gino&#8217;s Blog<\/a> reported that Beirut City Center was banning alcohol and hence &#8220;forcing Shari\u2019a law&#8221; in Lebanon. While many were quick to participate in the debate, others were drawn to the very strange and unprofessional nature of the Tweets from what appeared to be Beirut City Center\u2019s account.   <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pattabet\">@Pattabet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrR0land\">@MrR0land<\/a> ofcourse kitchen are still on \ud83d\ude42 who would visit a mall to get drunk and party while shopping ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 trapped (@beicitycentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beicitycentre\/statuses\/356762846635360256\">July 15, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  Beirut.com contacted Beirut City Center\u2019s customer service representative, who was unaware of the situation and stated that City Center had nothing to do with the bizarre account. RagMag magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RAGMAGMagazine\/status\/356776563125141507\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">said on Twitter<\/a> that the mall has confirmed they do, in fact, sell alcohol during Ramadan. <\/p>\n<p>  For the record, the legit City Center account account is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeirutCityCtr\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">@beirutcityctr<\/a>, while the fake one is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beicitycentre\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">@beicitycentre<\/a>. In the past few minutes, the fake account has changed their Twitter name and picture.<\/p>\n<p>  Gino\u2019s Blog has since issued a statement apologizing for propagating incorrect information.<\/p>\n<p>  Perhaps most strange about the fake account is that it appears to have been started as early as April 2012, and is mostly dedicated to promoting City Center.  We all love a good day of shopping, but this mall imposter may be the most dedicated fan yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a strange turn of events, an unknown Twitter user sparked Internet fury and confusion on Monday when they  impersonated Beirut City Centre by responding to questions about whether the mall was banning alcohol during Ramadan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[347],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-26719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-trending"],"authorship":[13],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fake Beirut City Centre 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