Hasta La Gadget!

The Twitter community exploded with outrage today, after fashion designer Kenneth Cole posted the above decidedly tacky comment to his Twitter feed. The comment was almost immediately rebuked as tasteless, in light of the recent violent protests in Egypt.

Cole (who, if the initials at the end of the post are to be believed, actually tweeted those words himself) has since followed up with an apology for the misguided comment, writing in standard PR tiptoeing fashion, “we weren’t intending to make light of a serious situation. We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment.”

Twitter, of course, has served as a resource for Egyptian protesters. Google team up with the microblogging service to allow citizens to post to Twitter via phone in the wake of a country-wide Internet blackout.