If you were on Twitter last night, or trying to access the BBC website between about 10.45pm and 11.45pm you'll have noticed all of the BBC's services and websites went offline. At which point the whole online world went into an almighty flap. But one man's downtime is another man's opportunity and in rushed Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy with this cheeky little Tweet at his former Newsround paymasters' expense:
Nice try... but it was swiftly followed by:
We're all guilty of typos of course and we're sure Guru-Murthy's tweet was sent in a spirit of bonhomie, but it is a timely reminder that you dabble with schadenfreude at your peril.
For the record, if you tried to visit Channel.com/news you got a 'Page Not Found' error. But then, you could get one of those on the BBC.
Further evidence of how important it is to proof red. I mean read.
Posted by: Vicki Walker | Apr 04, 2011 at 15:00