All Blacks get in Twitter trouble

Neemia Tialata and Cory Jane, members of the touring New Zealand rugby team, got themselves in hot water for using Twitter to announce that they hadn't made the side to face England at Twickenham this weekend.

The two All Blacks have not been disciplined but were given a talking to by coach Graham Henry.

Tialata, tweeting under the name @neyza3, has deleted the offending message but has since made references to it, saying: "Gotta thank the media for the free promotion."

And more recently, an apparently defiant Tialata wrote: They can't stop the Twitter king from tweeding! [sic]"

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Henry, claiming complete ignorance of what Twitter was, told the New Zealand Press Association: "I thought it was a new guy playing five-eighth [fly-half] for England."

Jane and Tialata aren't the first sportsmen to get themselves in trouble for using Twitter - footballer Darren Bent and cricketer Tim Bresnan have both posted messages on the site they've later come to regret.


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