Actual photo from around 12:10 p.m. today. Photo illustration by Eric Lubbers
Right around lunchtime, one of the vendors The Denver Post uses to post to Twitter got nostalgic and decided to post around 120 of our old tweets.
At the same time.
It didn’t take long for our crack social media team to shut off the firehose and delete the old tweets, but that didn’t stop the Twitterverse from getting a few shots in at our expense.
Here are the eight best responses we received @denverpost:
Some were just (graphically) descriptive:
So @denverpost just threw up all over Twitter.
— Esteban L. Hernandez (@EstebanHRZ) April 30, 2013
Others were concerned for our sanity and general well being:
Um, @denverpost, you alright?
— Ben Ward (@bm_dub) April 30, 2013
Go home @denverpost, you’re drunk.
— Lex Leaming (@aleaming) April 30, 2013
Then the speculation set in:
@molovie @denverpost somebody is bored?
— 303Wes (@303Wes) April 30, 2013
We can’t handle the truth! MT @laura_eurich: @denverpost I love you, but holy tweet dump Batman! 20+ headlines/tweets in my feed in 60 secs.
— Carrie Simison-Bitz (@CarrieSBitz) April 30, 2013
Some used the opportunity to get some jabs in at a) the canine subject of one of our old tweets and b) another tweet-happy news source in town:
Jumpy the Wonderdog tragically buried in that @denverpost flood #coleg
— Boulder Weekly (@boulderweekly) April 30, 2013
.@denverpost‘s Twitter account is tweeting such old news that I thought it was @huffpostdenver for a minute.
— Jeremy Story (@JeremyStory) April 30, 2013
Even after we were able to apologize, some of you couldn’t keep a straight face:
@denverpost I want my apology in gum
— Ivan Lajara (@ivanlajara) April 30, 2013
All in all, just another day in the Future of News. Thanks for sticking with us.
