KLM admits: We were tweet twerps

Mexico failed to see the funny side of a KLM tweet that joked about Mexico’s World Cup defeat by the Netherlands.

The Dutch airline published a picture of an airport departures sign under the heading Adios Amigos.

Next to the word Departures was a man with a moustache and sombrero.

The post was deleted shortly afterwards.

“It was meant to be a joke but there was too much negative reaction,” a KLM spokeswoman told the BBC.