Twitter CFO Anthony Noto has an oops moment with mistaken tweet

This week CFO Anthony Noto publicly tweeted about a plan he has to buy a company, including how he wanted to help make the deal happen at a meeting in mid-December. The message was posted on the microblogging service before it was deleted, with Twitter spokesman Jim Prosser confirming that Noto was trying to send the message privately.

“I still think we should buy them,” Noto tweeted. “He is on your schedule for Dec 15 or 16, we will need to sell him. I have a plan.”



It’s unclear who Noto was trying to send a message to or which company he’s interested in purchasing. Prosser declined to comment further.

The incident shows that even top members of Twitter’s executive team, who are on a mission to better explain the company’s product potential to Wall Street, sometimes have trouble using the service. The slip-up is so common that it has a name, a “DM fail” for “direct message fail”.