AP's badly phrased MH17 'crash lands' tweet: A timeline
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14:50 - The Associated Press tweets the above
14:50 - 14:54 OH MY GOD WILL THE HORROR EVER END?!
14:54 - 14:55 - Realisation and retweets
14:55 - 14:58 - Manual retweets with sarcastic comments at the front
14:59 - The AP tweets clarification:
14:59 - 15:00 - 'Someone's getting fired' manual RTs
15:00 - 15:04 - 'The importance of punctuation' tweets
15:04 - 15:05 - Latecomers retweet the original
15:05 - 15:08 - 'It's not a punctuation problem it's phrasing' point scoring
15:08 onwards - Everyone gets on with their damn lives
15:23 - I post this article, probably too late
15:23 onwards - Stare blankly at the screen before looking down at my empty hands and wondering what is life
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