Wednesday, April 10, 2013

City of Yokohama tweets about North Korean missile launch: Big Mistake

That's right the city of Yokohama sent out a tweet which announced the launch of North Korean missiles.   Slight problem those supposed missiles had never been launched.  

  Officials in Yokohama were left red-faced on Wednesday after mistakenly announcing the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter.The city, south of Tokyo, prematurely fired its Tweet just before noon, announcing “North Korea has launched a missile” with blank spaces to indicate the exact time.
“We received a call from one of our followers who had noticed the mistake. We had the Tweet ready and waiting, but for an unknown reason it was dispatched erroneously,” said a city official.
The city retracted the Tweet about 20 minutes later and apologised to followers of @yokohama_saigai, the official said.

Perhaps next time they'll take a look out the window to see if the missiles had been launched or maybe they could have just verified it with the Japanese Ministry of Defense.  How about  laying off the Red Bull's and calm down a little.

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