Footballer Rio Ferdi-nand has been slammed for promoting Snickers chocolate bar on Twitter. Ferdinand started posting odd tweets about knitting and ‘needing more wool’ much to the bemusement of his fans. The series of strange messages ended with a tweet and picture of the footballer posing with a Snickers bar.
However, the promotion ignores the Office of Fair Trading’s advice about celebrities making it clear when they are promoting or endorsing a product. Several of Ferdinand’s followers complained after his burst of tweets. One user tweeted: “Do you really need the money that badly?” A similar pattern of strange tweets promoting the chocolate bar also appeared in the Twitter feeds of cricketer Ian Botham, X Factor finalist Cher Lloyd and reality TV star Katie Price over the last few days.