Samsung Nigeria tweets update using Apple iPhone

Samsung Mobile's promotional Twitter account in Nigeria has been caught sending updates about the phones via an Apple iPhone.

A separate analysis suggested that more than 300 of its tweets had been sent via the same mobile app.

The @SamsungMobileNG account was shut down and deleted soon after news of the mistake started to spread.

The gaffe was revealed by the tweet bearing the words "via Twitter for iPhone" in its bottom right-hand corner.

The Samsung Nigeria account has now been reinstated, but the offending tweets have been removed from its historical feed.