Cryptic US military tweet was no code, it was toddler gibberish

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A tweet issued on the official page of the US military command in charge of the nation’s nuclear arsenal had many on social media confused&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many wondered what the Sunday evening tweet&comma; which read &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&semi;l&semi;&semi;gmlxzssaw”&comma; meant&period; Some speculated that the account of the US Strategic Command&comma; which has its headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha&comma; may have been hacked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Within 10 minutes&comma; the tweet drew at least 12&comma;400 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;likes”&comma; 9&comma;000 retweets and lots of conjecture and speculation&comma; the Omaha World-Herald reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Half an hour later&comma; a follow-up tweet apologised for the confusion and advised followers to disregard the nonsensical tweet&period; Then the mystery tweet disappeared&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Should we be ducking and covering now&quest;” one person responded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>StratCom officials provided the answer a day later&colon; The tweet came from a rogue toddler&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a statement issued late on Monday&comma; StratCom said the person who manages the command’s Twitter account was working from home when he briefly stepped away from his computer while the account was open&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That is when his child sat down to play on the keyboard and managed to hit &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;send”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Absolutely nothing nefarious occurred&semi; i&period;e&period;&comma; no hacking of our Twitter account&comma;” StratCom spokeswoman Karen Singer said in the statement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed9e62b13cc">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed9e62b13cc'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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