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Yokohama Accidentally Tweets That NK Missile Is Inbound

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-a-drill dept.

ForgedArtificer writes "Earlier today, the Crisis Management Office Affairs Bureau for the city of Yokohama, Japan had some startling news for its followers; to wit, a North Korean missile was on its way to Japan. The tweet stayed up for about 20 minutes before being removed and replaced with an apology. The city reports that a pre-written tweet was released due to a malfunction in the 'mechanism' that would have released the tweet at the appropriate time."

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  1. Apparently by netwarerip · · Score: 5, Funny

    They wanted to be first to tweet the news.
    Must be a Slashdot user.

    1. Re:Apparently by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe.

      Though being twitter, I'd expect it to be something more like:

      missile coming were all going to die lol

      --
      SJW n. One who posts facts.
  2. joshua what are you doing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    joshua what are you doing?

  3. Twitter fails as warning system. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good test. No widespread panic. Nobody changing their behaviour. No flood of retweets. Thanks to this production test we learned that twitter is not a good warning system.

  4. Re:Pre-written? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Depends who operates that "mechanism". If it's a government employee, a few hours to days after the impact. If it's a 14 year old girl with an iphone, about 42ms after the missle was launched...