Tutu’s Twitter account briefly suspended

Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu had his Twitter account briefly suspended for “aggressively following” other users, just hours after it was launched.

The ex-archbishop’s @TutuLegacy account racked up hundreds of followers in its first hours of use, before being blacklisted.

“Twitter says it’s ‘sorry for the inconvenience’ over our suspension. We got caught up in a spam clean up. Glad it wasn’t something we said,” Tutu tweeted soon after he was unblocked.