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Robert Dex

Charles Dickens Museum now on TikTok after four-letter word mix-up

English novelist Charles Dickens

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Fans of the Charles Dickens Museum can now follow it on TikTok after the social media giant lifted its inadvertent ban on its name.

The museum in Holborn, based in the house where the novelist lived and wrote classics including Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, set up an account on the popular video sharing site but attempts to search for it initially returned no results as his surname includes a four letter word.

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