An American mother with the Twitter name @theashes has become incensed after being bombarded with messages about the Ashes cricket series between Australia and England.
The woman, a prolific tweeter from Massachusetts who enjoys knitting and the "Glee" TV series, grew increasingly irritated at the messages sent via the microblogging site over recent days.
"I AM NOT A FREAKING CRICKET MATCH!!!" read an exasperated message on Saturday, after a series of bad-tempered tweets.
"This is not the account of the cricket match. Check profiles before you send mentions, it's incredibly annoying and rude," she wrote earlier.
Cricket fans had mistakenly included her Twitter name on their messages instead of #theashes or #ashes, which are used by contributors microblogging about the series.
@theashes, who has sent nearly 9,000 tweets about work and family life, could be in for a testing few weeks with the five-match Ashes series not winding up until January 7.