Official Battlefield account pulls insensitive tweets after outcry over #justWWIthing

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UPDATE: EA has offered the following comment on the issue. "We would like to apologise for any offense caused by content in the last 24 hours posted on the @Battlefield Twitter account," comes the official response. "It did not treat the World War 1 era with the respect and sensitivity that we have strived to maintain with the game and our communications."
ORIGINAL STORY: The official Battlefield account tried to get a hashtag trending on Twitter - only to find its attempt backfired.
Two tweets tried to push the hashtag #justWWIthings, the first depicting a soldier with a flamethrower with the caption: "When you're too hot for the club", the second a picture of a soldier brandishing a pistol while an airship goes down in the background with the caption@ "When your squad is looking on point."
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