'I'm not gonna tell my parents': American Airlines response to 'joke' terror threat sparks panicked explanation

Earlier today, this tweet was sent to American Airlines, and was subsequently deleted:

The tweet says “hello my name’s Ibrahim and I’m from Afghanistan. I’m part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I’m gonna do something really big bye”.

Naturally that caught the eye of American Airlines, which responded in part, “Your IP address and details will be forwarded to security and the FBI.” The tweeter immediately claimed to be “joking,” seemingly unaware that the authorities don’t have a sense of humor about such things:

https://twitter.com/WightyOAFC/status/455387662715584512
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455356058232688640

The tweeter American Airlines said would be referred to the FBI then started a marathon tweeting session expressing concern for possible loss of Twitter account, disgust over hate tweets in response and happiness with a dramatic increase in followers.

The best way to intro this series of “up and down” tweets might be “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”:
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455377698513514496
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455377801018109952
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455378153058603009
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455378848230961152
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455378980804501504
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455380557275627521
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455382474261286912

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455383715112554496
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455384506162495488
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455384793572990976
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455385296864280576
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455385576800526336
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455387900872757248
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455388924383596544

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@QueenDemetriax_ continued on, false sense of security and all:

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455392799568199680

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455393860093739008
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455393968554274816
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455395267391791105
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455396550202908672
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455397671034175489
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455398252670881792

This might work:

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455398629625577472

Good luck with that!

The original tweet was deleted:

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455401025332342784
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455401222007447552

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455401459031769088
But the commentary continued:
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455401864717430786
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455403156026187777
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455405913822994432
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455407376540401664
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455407788404260866
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455412766296535040
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455415150057897984
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455416565429964800
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455419797753569281

Cue rapid heartbeat:
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455421246885601280

Stand down:
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455422068944023552

But the tweet-a-thon continued:

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455422626320900097
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455424069975166976

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455433423705100288
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455433773753307136
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455434134648025088
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455435961401606145

Twitter account for sale:
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455437061533999105

Any buyers? Anyone? Anyone?

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455437336072183808
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455437983668523008
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455438145287626752
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455438485554745345

And finally, a willingness to give back some of those followers, possibly after a realization about the reason they became followers:

https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455438588583620608
https://twitter.com/QueenDemetriax_/status/455438764798902272

Suffice to say that’s one “joke” that could continue to backfire for days to come.