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LONDON -- 997 ArchivesForeign Office Twitter account wants us to know that Great Britain will soon be home to the world's longest three-tower cable-stayed bridge.

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Queensferry Crossing in Scotland is set to open in 2017.

Except the bridge featured in the tweet below is not Queensferry Crossing.

It is of another bridge in Scotland called Forth Bridge, a UNESCO world heritage site that completed construction in 1890, which the FCO has clearly labelled in the

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People have taken the opportunity to express their confusion and amusement.

Several suggested alternative images that could be used.

One proud citizen took the Foreign Office's lead and showed off another great triumph of British infrastructure.

And then Scottish Twitter jumped in and things got political.


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