The U.S. Secret Service launched its official Twitter account only nine days ago, but it has already had an incident with a rogue tweet. A rogue tweet that involved Fox News no less:
Blathering on cable news??? Never.
The tweet was deleted in a matter of seconds, but on the internet, everything lives forever.
Update: The Secret Service has released a statement (to Fox News, natch) saying:
On the Twitter post, a spokesman for the Secret Service explained that “an employee with access to the Secret Service’s Twitter account … mistakenly believed they were on their personal account” and posted “an unapproved and inappropriate tweet.”
“The tweet did not reflect the views of the U.S. Secret Service and it was immediately removed. We apologize for this mistake, and the user no longer has access to our official account,” spokesman Ed Donovan said in a statement to Fox News. “Policies and practices which would have prevented this were not followed and will be reinforced for all account users. We will ensure existing policies are strictly adhered to in order to prevent this mistake from being repeated, and we are conducting appropriate internal follow-up.”