James Moore: Tale of a takeover in 140 characters or fewer

Outlook You’ve probably heard that Twitter’s finance chief, Anthony Noto, accidentally tweeted his takeover plans on the social network #twit.

T’was apparently intended as a private message #fail. Said: I still think we should buy them. is on your schedule for Dec 15 or 16 – we will need to sell him. I have a plan #oops. Caught out by Twitter’s awkward customer interface #confusing. But the bid target could be Snapchat #mighthelp. It lets you send stuff to a controlled list of users #goodidea. Trouble is they can now see Twitter coming #oopsagain. Heaven knows what the regulators make of it all #scary. But they’ve probably got bigger fish to fry #phew. And it was an honest mistake #dumbass.