Everyone is freaking out over this weird Twitter notification

Wut.
Wut.

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2017%2f09%2f18%2f2b%2fjackbw5.32076By Jack Morse

Did someone press the wrong key or something?

Phones around the country blew up Tuesday morning with strange push notifications from Twitter showing a seemingly random series of letters and numbers. And yes, even CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to fall victim to the spam.

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“We’re seeing this issue too,” he tweeted. “On it.”

We reached out to Twitter in an attempt to determine just what is going on, but have yet to receive a response. 

Apparently, however, the issue is “fixed” — whatever that means. 

Should be fixed now. Working to understand why it happened

— jack (@jack) October 16, 2018

What it doesn’t mean is that the people of Twitter didn’t do one huge collective double take. 

Meanwhile, those without push notifications enabled took a moment to revel in a feeling of smug superiority. 

I can’t believe you masochists still have Twitter notifications on.

— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) October 16, 2018

We’ll update this post as more information becomes available. 

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