As Twitchy readers know, CBS News announced they were suspending their activity on Twitter Friday evening ‘out of an abundance of caution’. We also told you about Megyn Kelly’s mockery of the not-so-brave network. The courageous stand by CBS news lasted a whopping 1 day, 16 hours, and 31 minutes. Impressive.
Don’t worry everyone, they’re going to continue to ‘monitor the situation’. LOL.
Nice try, CBS News. We all know you opened your eye and realized you’d cut yourself off from one of the few conduits to push out your garbage journalism.
After pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its activity on Twitter as we continue to monitor the situation.
— CBS News PR (@CBSNewsPress) November 20, 2022
Twitter was not going to let them off easy.
🤭
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2022
LOL. That one has to sting a little.
You're a joke.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 20, 2022
True. We are laughing. HAHA!
Well, it was a great break while it lasted.
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) November 20, 2022
The quality of information on Twitter vastly improved for a little over a day and a half.
I didn’t have time to miss you. Try again.
— e-beth (@ebeth360) November 20, 2022
LOLOLOLOL!
— Jason (@jason913tn) November 20, 2022
Our brave media firefighters held out for so long!
This is an actual tweet. https://t.co/AZjSkxjTcg
— Anna James Zeigler (@ajzeigler) November 20, 2022
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It’s a work of art. LOL.
During that pause, everyone on this app was safe from misinformation.
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) November 20, 2022
Literal chef’s kiss. LOL.
This is not an airport, no need to announce your departure or arrival.
— It's all a distraction (@it_distraction) November 20, 2022
This wasn’t even a newsworthy airport delay!
Sounds like CBS needs Twitter more than Twitter needs CBS. https://t.co/mq3HEC68su
— Dog guy (@Catsorange1) November 20, 2022
Nailed it.
“We pitched a fit and didn’t get our way” https://t.co/YRxfaiSBzH
— The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) November 20, 2022
We’d like think they were embarrassed that nobody cared they left Twitter, but they’re CBS News … shame is really not in their repertoire.
CBS "News" has decided to remain on Twitter?
We can all breathe a sigh of relief now… 😐
— 🅿️®️🚫❌✌🏾🇺🇸 (@proxcee) November 20, 2022
The crisis is over, everyone! You can sleep in peace tonight.
OK…CBS News P/R…I can’t believe anyone believes this tweet from you below….you tweet you were assessing some security concerns? Or were you really checking which way the wind was blowing? https://t.co/c323z791wH
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) November 20, 2022
You know you’ve screwed up when you get slammed by Greta Van Susteren.
She also called out exactly what they were doing. CBS News bought into the hysteria that Twitter was in its final hours and tried to be one of the first media outlets to jump on the bandwagon to help force its demise. It didn’t take long for them to realize that, instead of joining a movement to destroy Musk’s foray into social media, they’d actually joined a circus as third-string clowns.
I don't understand what this was about. What security concerns would be related to "doing tweets"? Were they afraid their computers were going to explode? https://t.co/MOUFaSN8rv
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) November 20, 2022
More like insecurity concerns. Clowns.