U.S. State Department apologizes for implying you're not a '10'

State is learning that there's a big difference between thinking you're being funny on Twitter and actually being funny.
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The State Department is learning that there's a big difference between thinking you're being funny on Twitter and actually being funny.

Over the past several weeks, the official Twitter account for the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs has been tweeting out travel tips with the hashtag "#SpringBreakingBadly" in an attempt to discourage poor behavior on spring holiday by revelers traveling overseas. 


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Some of the tips seem so common sense as to make you question the need for them but, then again, Spring Break trips are not known for cautious, rational behavior.

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Most of the tips are pretty innocuous. 

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An attempt at humor, though,  got the account in trouble on Wednesday in the tip below, which has since been deleted. 

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As is custom on the Internet in 2016, some people had fun, some got mad, and then some got mad at the people who got mad. 



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For its part, the department issued an apology after deleting the offending tweet. 


Let this be a lesson to us all: Spring break is never worth it and nor is tweeting about it.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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