Financial Times employee Sarah O’Connor tweets about VW’s killer robot, Twitter goes crazy

A FINANCIAL Times employee learnt it is best to avoid tweeting stories about killer robots when your name is eerily close to the protagonist of Terminator, Sarah Connor.

Sarah Connor is the mother of John Connor in the Terminator franchise. She is not the same as Sarah O’Connor, a Financial Times journalist.

WHEN a Financial Times employment correspondent shared a story on Twitter about a killer robot, she had no idea what was going to happen next.

Sarah O’Connor had shared the Financial Times story regarding a 21-year-old who was killed by a robot while completing contract work at a Volkswagen plant in Germany.

A robot has killed a worker in a VW plant in Germany http://t.co/RRdCnNmbsj

While tweeting with the best of intentions, Ms O’Connor soon learnt it is best to avoid sharing stories on social media about killer robots, especially when your name is eerily close to the protagonist of Terminator Sarah Connor.

Immediately following the tweet, Ms O’Connor was bombarded with tweets referencing the Terminator franchise.

@sarahoconnor_ You are our only hope now. Resistance fully supports you as our leader.

Please @sarahoconnor_ take care of John Connor, he is our only hope now!

.@sarahoconnor_ skynet is close, run Sarah, ruN!!!

As the tweets went on, it became apparent Ms O’Connor was becoming frustrated and she even advised people to not follow her.

In the end, she reminded people that someone had died and their behaviour was inappropriate.

And you know what? She probably has a point.

@sarahoconnor_ Guys. I don't know what skynet is. And I wouldn't follow me - I tweet really boring stuff about unit wage costs and the like.

@sarahoconnor_ Ok. I should have thought about my name & its associations before tweeting this!

Feeling really uncomfortable about this inadvertent Twitter thing I seem to have kicked off. Somebody died. Let's not forget.