The perils of Twittering for work

As discovered by the author of the channel4news Twitter stream this afternoon:

Channel 4 news Twitter error

On the plus side, they actually got recommendations.

Major advice to take home from this: if you ever plan on sending sexually explicit texts to anyone, make sure they aren’t in your phonebook as “Twinkletoes” or “Twister” or anything else likely to be next to “Twitter”.

(Also, the channel4news Twitter is interesting and entertaining, as is their FactCheck sister service, and such lols as the above in no way detract from that.)

posted on July 23, 2008 at 9:41 pm in Amusing, Web

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