Poll: Nike campaign on Twitter gets banned. Were they unethical?

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Earlier this week in the UK, the Advertsing Standards Authority (ASA) - their equivalent of our Better Business Bureau (BBB) - banned a Nike Make It Count Twitter campaign that used the personal accounts of English Premier League players Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) and Jack Wilshere (Arsenal). According to a report by Mark Sweney in the Guardian, Nike "broke rules for not clearly telling the public their tweets were ads.”

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What do you think? Were these tweets misleading?

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