Missouri journalism school deletes tweet predicting big win by Tigers
In the annals of great inventions we have: the wheel, the printing press, smartphones and the screenshot.
The latter allows anyone to save a tweet that is later deleted. The latest culprit to delete a tweet: The Missouri School of Journalism.
There was this beauty of a tweet ahead of the Missouri football team’s game Saturday against Middle Tennessee:
DELETION: @mujschool objectivity determines this was not a great tweet after losing game to MTSU, & they scrap it! pic.twitter.com/r5HG0odZtO
— Freezing Cold Takes (@OldTakesExposed) October 23, 2016
Um, whoops. Mizzou lost its homecoming game 51-45 to Middle Tennessee and someone at the journalism school tried to destroy the evidence. But as we’ve learned time and again, a deleted tweet is never really gone if enough people see it.
I wonder if there is a class dedicated to social media at Mizzou’s journalism school? If not, there should be.
Pete Grathoff: 816-234-4330, @pgrathoff
This story was originally published October 22, 2016 at 8:14 PM with the headline "Missouri journalism school deletes tweet predicting big win by Tigers."