'Please be a pocket tweet': NBC's Richard Engel sends bizarre Twitter message from Egypt

The latest in Egypt from NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel:

https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/352545190227087362

Tweeters tried to figure out what was most likely a “butt tweet” from Engel:

Things are getting curiouser and curiouser in Cairo: RT @RichardEngel: Ipnulomopmpkcomoml

— Matthew Power (@matthew_power) July 3, 2013

Gotta get out my dictionary for this one. RT “@RichardEngel: Ipnulomopmpkcomoml”

— Alice Golder (@alicebaij) July 3, 2013

Code?“@RichardEngel: Ipnulomopmpkcomoml”

— John Yaworsky (@jty) July 3, 2013

https://twitter.com/randomsubu/status/352552055925252097
https://twitter.com/PirateWench/status/352545707208622083
https://twitter.com/sonsofjeremiah/status/352550027043946497

Gesundheit. “@RichardEngel Ipnulomopmpkcomoml”

— alain smithee (@alainsmi) July 3, 2013

Even @RichardEngel pocket tweets better than CNN analysis: “@RichardEngel: Ipnulomopmpkcomoml”

— JeanR ? (@P_JeanR) July 3, 2013

Either he sat on his phone or he's taking tweeting lessons from Scott Brown…
RT @RichardEngel: Ipnulomopmpkcomoml

— clouds_in_my☕ (@dreamsof2005) July 3, 2013

Heh. Possibly.

Fortunately, a couple of minutes later, Engel returned to tweeting normally:

BBC: pro Morsi channels have been closed and employees and guests arrested including #egypt

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) July 3, 2013