While Twitter has proven to be an international phenomenon in 140 characters or fewer, The Frontlinecontroversy over a wrongly attributed tweet is just one example of "mistweets" on the microblogging site
Tragically it is true. So terribly shocking and sad. Life is just too cruel sometimes. RIP
The tweet by broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan on the death of her RTÉ colleague Gerry Ryan in April 2010, before the station had officially confirmed the radio DJ’s death. O’Callaghan apologised.
I tweeted a photograph of myself that I intended as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle
Republican congressman Anthony Weiner resigned in June 2011 after he inadvertently sent a lewd photograph of himself to his Twitter followers. Having first denied that he had sent a photo of himself in boxer shorts, he later admitted to having done so.
I’ve defamed Blu Inc Media Female Magazine. My tweets on their HR Policies are untrue. I retract those words hereby apologise
In June 2011 Malaysian activist Fahmi Fadzil settled a defamation having agreed to apologise 100 times on Twitter in a three-day period for remarks he made on the microblogging site saying that a pregnant friend had been treated unfairly by her employer.
Apologies – reports of Steve Job’s death completely unconfirmed. Live on
A post, tweeted on a CBS Twitter account in September 2011, incorrectly stated that Steve Jobs had died a month before his actual death in October of the same year. The tweet, which had been posted by the What’s Trending thread, was removed within a few minutes. However, it had been retweeted more than 10,000 times.
Breaking: Rep. Giffords (D-AZ), 6 others killed by gunman in Tucson. . .
The US national radio syndicator NPR apologised for its “serious and grave error” in erroneously reported that Republican Gabrielle Giffords had died as a result of her injuries in a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in January 2011.
NPR’s executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, apologised: “The information we reported came from two different governmental sources, including a source in the Pima County sheriff’s department. Nonetheless, in a situation so chaotic and changing so swiftly, we should have been more cautious.”