IF YOU WERE following the Sky News Breaking account on Twitter earlier today, you may have noticed a mysterious tweet.
That tweet would send the entire internet into a tailspin. Here’s how it happened.
First, there was this baffling tweet from an account with more than 900,000 followers:
What was it?
People could only speculate:
All in all it was a great day for people called Colin, who suddenly found their name the most popular word on the internet:
Graph via hashtags.org
And naturally, there was a parody account:
Other news outlets had a GREAT old gloat:
And then – finally – we learned what was going on.
First, there was this enigmatic tweet from another Sky News account:
And then, this even-more-enigmatic explanation:
So we know that if the world genuinely DOES get taken over by a fearsome superbeing named Colin, Sky News have got their tweet ready to go.
Then, after Colin was gone, there was only emptiness:
We all miss Colin. RIP Colin.
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