Sky News Accidentally Sends Private Tweet, Then Covers It Up By Claiming To Be Hacked

In February 2012, Sky News made Twitter headlines with its widely contested ban on its employees retweeting or sharing information from any Twitter users not employed by Sky News.

And now the broadcaster is stirring the Twitter pot again with a strange fake hack cover-up.

Yesterday at midday, a tweet appeared on the Sky News Twitter profile reading simply, “Colin was here.”

Within moments the rogue message was retweeted more than 7,500 times and favorited more than 2,000 times before Sky News deleted it.

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