JD Wetherspoon closes down all social media accounts

Chain defies ‘conventional wisdom’ by closing Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts for its 900 pubs

Wetherspoons pub
Customers at the Hope And Champion Wetherspoon pub, near Beaconsfield
(Image credit: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty)

High street pub chain JD Wetherspoon has announced that it is shuttering all of its Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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