TWITTER users were given a fright last week when police in Woking tweeted that there had been a plane crash in Byfleet - by mistake.
An officer sent out the worrying message on Friday (July 27) on the Woking Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team's social media account, @WokingBeat.
The error was caused by selecting the wrong option from a dropdown list.
Police quickly deleted the message, then tweeting: "There has NOT been a plane crash in #Byfleet #Woking one of our staff accidentally sent the wrong tweet from a list of options."
This message was followed by another, responding to a query from a member of the public.
It said: "Tweet has been deleted, we use automated tweets with a dropdown bar to choose what we want to say."
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2118067_police_twitter_error_over_plane_crash_in_byfleet
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