Toronto mayor Rob Ford has grabbed the attention of the news again, this time with a pretty innocent social media flub. He mistakenly advised his 133,000 Twitter followers to turn the clocks back for Daylight Savings Time. Whoops!
In case you missed it. @tomayorford 's time change tweet. pic.twitter.com/TetFB4QJ2q
— Althia Raj (@althiaraj) March 9, 2014
Eventually Ford deleted the tweet and posted a corrected one, but people had already grabbed screenshots as proof of the mistake. It seems that this poor guy has some sort of PR curse following him, especially since admitting that he’s smoked crack cocaine. To be fair, though, Ford did lose his social media manager and special assistant this past Friday according to Now Toronto.
Regardless, reactions on Twitter were merciless.
It's forward you moron RT @TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) March 9, 2014
Rob Ford continues to defy space and time. "@TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back."
— David Hains (@DavidHains) March 9, 2014
Drugs r bad kids RT @TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.
— John Brooks (@Jbroks86) March 9, 2014
WRONG! What are you smoking?! Oh. Yeah. Right. @TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back…
— David Silverberg (@SilverbergDave) March 9, 2014
Many in TO will be 2hrs behind tomorrow. MT: @TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back
— Collin Bishop (@collindbishop) March 9, 2014
Oh well, Rob. I guess you live and you learn. At least Ford can say that this isn’t the biggest blunder he’s ever made in his life!
Photo by Shaun Merritt
via the Lost Angeles Times