Star Samsung Athlete Tweets Props for Galaxy S4 -- From an iPhone

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Sam Laird
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Star Samsung Athlete Tweets Props for Galaxy S4 -- From an iPhone

David Ferrer is a Spanish tennis star. He's playing in the upcoming Mutua Madrid Open tournament. That event happens to be sponsored by Samsung, so Ferrer sent a tweet on Tuesday in which he gave a big ol' shout-out about how much he loves his new Galaxy S4 smartphone.

Sounds like your average athlete tweet-for-cash, right? Well, there was actually just one problem here: Ferrer apparently sent the tweet from an iPhone.

The tweet -- since deleted -- was noticed by Spanish journalist Jaime Novoa, who posted this screenshot:

@benedictevans you’ll like this. Professional Spanish tennis player working for Samsung. Tweet sent from… iPhone twitter.com/jaimenovoa/sta…— Jaime Novoa (@jaimenovoa) April 30, 2013

The tweet says, in English, something along the lines of: "I'm so happy with my new #GalaxyS4, setting up S Health on my new #GalaxyS4 to help me with training."

Ferrer later posted the message again, this time from a different device. But that didn't stop a number of followers from responding with snarky messages, including one that referenced Ferrer's "iPhoneGalaxy4."

@davidferrer87 sigue en el Tenis alejate de la tecnología, la verdad un día de estos te jugará una mala pasada tu iPhoneGalaxy4.— Maxx (@simbiosisgroup) April 30, 2013

Oops. But hey, all in a day's work, right?

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