It appears someone had a play around with Google Maps and renamed Donald Trump’s glamorous high-rise New York building “Dump Tower”.
For a few short hours, this new name for the building on Fifth Avenue was available for everyone to see – and the news spread like wildfire on social media.
Someone renamed Trump Tower "Dump Tower" on google maps. pic.twitter.com/MM0AtBFN3t
— Alex Remnick (@AlexRemnick) November 27, 2016
People started having a look to see the name change for themselves.
Just googled it. Trump Tower. #DumpTower pic.twitter.com/89aCdGxPDs
— Benny (@BRios82) November 27, 2016
I love you Google! #DumpTower is the perfect name! LOL!!! pic.twitter.com/U03iH9V3LI
— VA for Hillary (@VA4Hillary1) November 27, 2016
Lol who's doing this rofl #TrumpTower #DumpTower pic.twitter.com/ultK7ZbTBh
— Ching (@__C_h_i_n_g__) November 27, 2016
DUMP TOWER! pic.twitter.com/lt29VYtWhy
— GEEZY (@GRYKING) November 27, 2016
High five to the Google Maps genius who changed T***p Tower to its rightful name, Dump Tower pic.twitter.com/W1DC53F8pn
— Lesley Abravanel (@lesleyabravanel) November 27, 2016
Day made. It's the little things. Thank you, Google maps hacker. #DumpTower pic.twitter.com/Za27RKvuE1
— Fiona (@redwinter101) November 27, 2016
#DumpTower is the 2nd best move I've seen by hackers this week… pic.twitter.com/KIm54V4PUS
— Ashley Smith (@wanderlustylife) November 27, 2016
However, a lot of people weren’t happy about it.
Disgraceful! #Google renamed #trumptower #DumpTower #ButtHurtLibtards #DNCLosers pic.twitter.com/iUZjAKdbda
— Deplorable and Happy (@matthewthesmith) November 27, 2016
Dear #Google #googlemaps ,
You are a child.#trumptower #dumptower@realDonaldTrump
— beyondgreat.org (@beyondgreatorg) November 27, 2016
To the @google employee who renamed #TrumpTower to #DumpTower , update your resume.
— j yung (@xtey92a) November 27, 2016
The building has been changed back to Trump Tower now, but it is unclear how the name was altered in the first place.
The data found in Google Maps – like place names, borders, and road networks and so on – often come from a combination of third-party providers, public sources and user contributions.
But that’s mostly in cases when new locations are added and usually any changes made to existing locations would have to go through a verification process.
A spokesman for Google said: “Some inappropriate names were surfacing in Google Maps that should not be, and we apologise for any offence this may have caused. Our teams immediately took action and have fixed the issue.”