Twitter executive accidentally Tweets private direct message

OH DEAR. He meant to send a private message to a colleague regarding a business deal. But instead, Twitter’s chief financial officer accidentally shared it publicly.

IF THIS doesn’t convince you that Twitter’s confusing, nothing will.

The social media company’s chief financial officer, Anthony Noto, accidentally sent a private message publicly on Twitter. Noto tweeted the following private message: “I still think we should buy them. He is on your schedule for Dec 15 or 16 — we will need to sell him. i have a plan.”

The tweet was quickly deleted, but Fusion’s Kevin Roose caught it:

Looks like Twitter’s CFO just had the first-ever M&A DM fail. pic.twitter.com/AuLxVOBJED

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 24, 2014

Twitter confirmed to Bloomberg News that the message was intended as private.

If Twitter’s chief financial officer can’t understand the difference between private messages and public ones, what hope do the rest of us have? The company’s CEO, Dick Costolo, admitted last year that many people find Twitter confusing.

Noto seems to be discussing some sort of deal or acquisition, and some have taken to speculating about what the deal could be.

Lucky for Noto, there are a lot worse things that have been sent publicly on Twitter. Need we remind everyone of Anthony Weiner?

This article was written by Alexis Kleinman from Huffington Post and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.