After twitting words insulting Apple on Thursday, Huawei Mobile Brazil's Twitter account soon found itself in the spotlight.
In an unusual direct attack against Apple using vulgar language, the Huawei branch company said “we are the best!” Despite the twitter post was soon deleted, screenshots of it were wildly circulating.
In response to this, sources from Huawei said the twit was not made by Huawei employees but because the Twitter account had been hacked. They deleted the content soon after discovering the incident.
The insulting words were posted by Huawei Mobile BR, the official Twitter account of Huawei’s Brazil branch office. The brief introduction of the account showed the account was open only in June last year.
It usually uses Android mobile client and twit in Portuguese language. There was no single twitter post or reply in English, except for the words insulting Apple.
Despite the incident is an obvious hacking joke, Huawei’s rivalry with Apple is widely known.
On September 11 when Apple released the iPhone 11, the Huawei P30 Pro’s Kirin 980 was one of the SoC that Apple compared itself with, marking the first time Apple has compared its products with Huawei.
Half a month later on September 26, when Huawei’s Mate30 and Mate30 Pro were released in China, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer business group hinted that the iPhone Pro’s camera design was copying Huawei.
