Here’s something to briefly distract you from the Telegraph’s Pre-Budget report build-up: an online rumour claims that Sarah Brown’s recent gibberish tweet – “fvdfzsrsazxzzxcvbnmadgfhjjkqwrtyuuuiop” – was written not by her three-year-old son, Fraser, but very deliberately by her, so that the Prime Minister could include the anecdote in a speech this week.
Gordon Brown told an audience at an event to promote internet safety for children: “The people who follow Sarah, my wife, on Twitter received a message of gobbledegook which my younger son had bashed out on the keys and then pressed ’send’ while she was out of the room.” Mrs Brown joked afterwards on Twitter: “and in future I will turn my computer off when I am not using it – to save energy and avoid junior tweet interference”. Awwww, we all thought.
But The Media Blog draws attention to the fact that, when using Twitter via an internet browser, you can’t post a tweet by pressing ‘Send’. You have to move the mouse to the “update” option, and click. Could young Fraser Brown really have achieved this feat? Seems unlikely, doesn’t it.
Is Sarah Brown’s Twitter account anything more than a PR exercise for Number 10?
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