Tweet and delete: Celebs & their Oops moment

Salman Khan's tweets on Yakub Memon's death penalty on Sunday did not go down well with the public. A few hours later, he was forced to delete them. Here are some others who purged their timelines of controversial comments.
Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen

The former couple are quite the pair. Both posted their private phone numbers on Twitter thinking they were sending direct messages. Sheen even thought he was tweeting to Bieber. Both phones immediately went into meltdown mode with thousands of fans trying to call and get a word in. Tweets were deleted, numbers were changed and lessons were learnt.

Preity Zinta

Last October, the actress tweeted that she threw a guy out of a theatre, because he refused to stand up for the national anthem. The tweet turned against her as the Tweeple reminded her of a small thing called 'democracy' and that it wasn't her place to throw people out. Later, she deleted the tweet and said there were others in the theatre and not just her who wanted to give the boot to the guy. Ting.

Rihanna and Kim Kardashian

Both unwittingly got caught in a Twitter crossfire while tweeting about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Kim owned up and said she was sorry for hurting sentiments. RiRi, a little more original, said she didn't realise her tweet went out with a #freePalestine hashtag. Later, she said she was praying for peace and a swift end to the conflict.

Donald Trump

Trump's presidential campaign has seen many surprises. In July, even as the topic of immigration heated up between candidates, Trump retweeted an offensive comment about the former Florida Governor Jeb Bush that said, "JebBush has to like the Mexican Illegals because of his wife." Neither Trump nor his campaign commented on the decision to delete the tweet. But considering the campaign is putting out images of the American fl ag with Nazi soldiers on it, they really do have bigger problems.

Vinod Kambli

In April, the former India cricketer sent out a stream of insulting tweets abusing Navjot Singh Sidhu, Shoaib Akhtar and Rameez Raja. The morning after, Kambli invented a friend. Apparently, the friend was a Mumbai Indians (MI) supporter and was irate after their loss. And it was him and not Kambli who posted the tweets from his phone. Kambli apologised and then got mad at the continued trolling, saying he was ready to take everyone on.