Wisconsin Twitter’s scheduled tweet celebrates basketball win after losing
Whoever handles tweeting from the Wisconsin athletics account got a lesson in the perils of scheduled tweets on Saturday.
The UWBadgers account sent out a pre-scheduled tweet on Saturday about how the women’s basketball team looked to emulate the men’s after the big season-opening victory Friday night. There was just one problem: the men’s team lost in a huge upset to lowly Western Illinois, 69-67.
The tweet was quickly deleted, but the internet never forgets.
Looks like someone forgot about this prescheduled tweet… pic.twitter.com/HWnkOHk3tw
— Tyler Mason (@tylermason21) November 14, 2015
It’s tough to blame them for being confident in the 17th-ranked Badgers to pull off a win over a team picked to finish last in the Summit League. Once it didn’t happen, though, somebody probably should have done something about that tweet before it went out to the amused masses…or asked Governor Greg Abbott what happens when you get too far ahead of yourself on social media.
H/T SB Nation
