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01st Nov 2013

New York Times makes brilliant correction regarding Twitter user’s name

The New York Times are always quick to make corrections whenever they’ve made a mistake and one of their more recent ones was absolutely brilliant...

Oisin Collins

The New York Times are always quick to make corrections whenever they’ve made a mistake and one of their more recent ones was absolutely brilliant…

If you frequent Twitter you’ll know that from time to time people change their Twitter names and/or handles, which can make it hard to figure out their actual name.

Sadly, for the New York Times, one of their writers recently got caught in up in this trap when they incorrectly named a Twitter user who had changed her name from Jillian C. York to Chillian J. Yikes! for Halloween.

You can check out the entire article here.

So what did Jillian C. York, or Chillian J. Yikes!, think of the c*ck-up? Well, she bloody loved it…