SeaWorld Twitter campaign backfires

                                                                                                                  An orca at SeaWorld. Credit: flickr.com/Abi Skipp

SeaWorld has been left red-faced after their #AskSeaWorld question and answer session was hijacked by animal rights advocates.
The initiative was aimed at getting people to ask questions about the care of orcas, but backfired this week.
Animals rights organisation PETA was one of the first to jump on the hashtag, asking why SeaWorld is still open and questioning their treatment of their orcas.
Animal Rights News asked how kidnapping baby orcas was part of an animal care programme.
Elisa Allen, Associate Director of PETA, commended people for questioning the company.
"Caring people everywhere jumped at the opportunity to ask the 'abusement park' why it continues to imprison orcas in tiny chlorinated tanks, forcing them to perform ridiculous tricks for food," she told MailOnline Travel.
"SeaWorld should do the right thing and release its captive orcas to coastal sanctuaries, where visitors could watch these intelligent, social, and highly complex animals finally be able to swim in wide-open spaces rather than in tanks at SeaWorld that