Correction: Murdoch wife not on Twitter

[January 04, 2012]  LONDON (AP) -- In a Jan. 3 story about media mogul Rupert Murdoch's activities on Twitter, The Associated Press erroneously reported that his wife Wendi had joined the micro-blogging site under the name "wendi-deng."

The San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. had initially marked the account as genuine, but later said it was a fake. In a statement Tuesday, Twitter said "the wendi-deng account was mistakenly verified for a short period of time. We apologize for the confusion this caused."

[Associated Press]

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