As the Robinhood investment trading app became a hot topic on Thursday morning after it made a controversial decision to bar users from buying GameStop stocks due to “volatility,” Twitter users have apparently been landing on the account for the World Wide Robin Hood Society, which has been using the @robinhood handle since 2016. It’s an honest mixup, and whoever runs the social media account decided to give the throng of new followers a heads up in a tweet that’s already racked up over 56,000 Likes.
“Lovely to have all these new followers,” the account wrote. “Can we just check that you know that you’re following The World Wide Robin Hood Society in Nottingham and not the Robin Hood App .. if so .. a big welcome from Sherwood.”