Brit PM's son in Tweet Blunder

Updated on: 09 December,2009 08:25 AM IST |
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3-year-old had posted gobbledegook on mother Sarah Brown's page

3-year-old had posted gobbledegook on mother Sarah Brown's page

Followers of Sarah Brown's popular feed, received by more than a million people, were startled last week to see her apparently exclaim: "fvdfzsrsazxzzxcvbnmadgfhjjkqwrtyuuuiop".

Brown explained that it had been his three-year-old son Fraser who grabbed the chance to express himself on the computer while his mother was briefly out of the room.

"Last week, the people who follow Sarah, my wife, on Twitter received a message of gobbledegook, which my younger son had bashed out on the keys and then pressed 'send' while she was out of the room," he told the audience.

"Within an hour, the Downing Street press office was called to ask if she had been the victim of a hacker,u00a0 and the online world was asking about various conspiracy theories.
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"It started with our mistake and, of course, it was a mistake not to supervise the Internet and we were taught a big lesson as a result of that," he said at an event to promote Internet safety for children.

Sarah's Tweet

Shortly after the surprise tweet, Sarah posted a message to reassure her online followers, saying: "In future I will turn my computer off when I am not using it to save energy and avoid junior tweet interference."

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