Japan city mistakenly tweets North Korean missile launch
Officials in the Japanese city of Yokohama were left red-faced today after mistakenly announcing the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter.
The city, south of Tokyo, prematurely fired its tweet just before noon, announcing "North Korea has launched a missile" with blank spaces to indicate the exact time.
"We received a call from one of our followers who had noticed the mistake. We had the tweet ready and waiting, but for an unknown reason it was dispatched erroneously," said a city official.
The city retracted the tweet about 20 minutes later and apologised to followers of @yokohama_saigai, the official said.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/japan-city-mistakenly-tweets-north-korean-missile-launch/1100380/
Clearly the tweeter (is that right?) had one too many drinks 
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