Local CBS Affiliate Posts Porn Link By Accident In Weather Report
A local CBS news affiliate got into hot water earlier today when someone from the WREG News Channel affiliate decided to link to a porn site, Pornhub, instead of the weather in a tweet.
The verified Twitter handle must have been manned by someone that was sniffing around on the x-rated porn site prior to tweeting about the interactive radar, if the link is evidence enough — and in our opinion it is.
In a tweet, WREG News Channel 3 said:
“Use our interactive radar to track the rain and storms,” followed by the pornhub link, which was supposed to be a link to the interactive radar tracking, but that’s just our guess.
Not only was a link to pornhub tweeted out to the Memphis storm trackers, but an actual pornhub account named “rockbone” was shared. This means someone at WREG was looking at porn, but they were also linking to their actual porn account.
According to E! the deleted tweet was followed up by an apology.
We apologize for a tweet that went out earlier this morning.
— WREG News Channel 3 (@3onyourside) October 7, 2014
Since hacking seems to be the anonymous person to point a finger at, the station said this was an instance of someone hacking into their account, and not a clueless intern.
Have you you changed your passwords recently? Take it from us… Do it now. Also, resist public WiFi. For real… http://t.co/pqTNJFZveW
— WREG News Channel 3 (@3onyourside) October 7, 2014
Viewers of the channel didn’t seem to fall for their excuse either.
@3onyourside nawl don’t try to throw us off you guys got caught slipping lol
— ?Teary not Terry (@Ms_LilBody) October 7, 2014
Y’all doing damage control or nah? @3onyourside
— Miss Stout?????? (@stout_87) October 7, 2014
@3onyourside now you’re saying you were hacked lol even funnier
— Michael mcclenney (@mdmcclenney) October 7, 2014
@3onyourside Oh, come on. Just own it. It’s an innocent mistake that’s also funny. No need to go with the old I-was-hacked story. #RockBone
— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) October 7, 2014
@3onyourside come on. Owning it will go over 100000 times better than the “we were hacked” excuse.
— HPS (@HydeParkSwag) October 7, 2014
In better news, Twitter users have decided to take the term #Rockbone back and are changing the narrative of the humorous tweet turned damage control excuse.
@kjmeow we once got hit with a category 3 rockbone. the clean-up is a nightmare
— frankenmustard (@nice_mustard) October 7, 2014
Memphis weather today looking mostly cloudy with a 100% chance of #Rockbone.
— 30Angel Gone Coastal (@GOPGrizzette) October 7, 2014
This weather. Jesus. It went all #rockbone on me in less than a minute. #nostamina
— Shawn Carter (@MouseBrat) October 7, 2014
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