Meredith Vieira: World's most clueless Twitter user?
We don't know exactly what she was trying to say, but we do know one thing: Meredith Vieira doesn't always employ a professional tweeter.
The journalist and television personality let loose with a string of tweets that prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that your Uncle Frank isn't the world's most clueless user of the popular social platform.
Vieira was apparently attempting to express her well-wishes to a friend.
Here are just a few tweets from the train wreck.
Today I am thinkinbg
— Meredith Vieira (@meredithvieira) October 30, 2013
Thinkinbg about what, Meredith?
Today I am thinkib
— Meredith Vieira (@meredithvieira) October 30, 2013
Yes, yes, we know!
I obviously suck at tweeting. Trying to say that today I am thinking about dear friend Mo Cashin and fami
— Meredith Vieira (@meredithvieira) October 30, 2013
OK, sounds serious. Flash-forward to the (almost) end:
Not drunk...just incompetent. Just bear with me. Stu
— Meredith Vieira (@meredithvieira) October 30, 2013
Stu? Who's Stu?
Still learning
— Meredith Vieira (@meredithvieira) October 30, 2013
Indeed she is. Maybe she was tweeting from a mobile device? One in which the keys had been rearranged by mischievous gnomes?
But in fairness to Vieira, she isn't the only celeb who has failed to grasp the intricacies of microblogging. After an evening of typos and apparent non sequiturs back in 2010, Martha Stewart was accused by some of being three sheets to the wind. She responded:
i am not drunk-just curious if i can get some action going on twitter time to write my editor's letter now
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart) September 22, 2010
Gotcha. Moving on. Companies can also be guilty of poor tweeting. Twitter account @urtweetsrbad gathers the worst tweets from company accounts. These aren't exactly indecipherable so much as they are shameless pleas for retweets.
A few examples called out by the account:
In 1776 George Washington established the US cavalry. We're here now to be called upon for all your banking needs. ^BD
— Chase Support (@ChaseSupport) October 30, 2013
What kind of condiment do you feel like today?
— Denny's (@DennysDiner) October 16, 2013
RT if you agree: my favorite time of year is #fall, and my favorite time of day is in the morning with Coffee-mate!
— Coffee-mate (@Coffee_mate) October 16, 2013