The official Twitter account for the royal family has deleted what appeared to be an accidental tweet, but not before the one-word message was liked more than 1,200 times.
On Thursday, the @RoyalFamily Twitter account, which acts as the account for Queen Elizabeth II and some of her family members, tweeted out a simple “Thanks” at 9am.
Just six minutes later, after it was liked 1,260 times and retweeted 591 times, the tweet was deleted – however, a screenshot of the unintentional message was captured by Gert's Royals, who re-shared it on the social media platform.
“An accidental tweet from @RoyalFamily was up for six mins, during which it received 1,260 likes & 591 retweets,” the account wrote on Twitter along with a photo of the tweet.
According to screenshots captured by the DailyMail, the tweet also received numerous amusing replies from some of the royal family’s more than 4.3m followers while it was live.
“No problem mate,” one person responded, while another wrote: “Cheers Liz.”
“Can’t wait to hear the story behind this misfire,” someone else replied.
As of now, the account has not issued an explanation for the tweet, however, the Twitter page has been active, having recently retweeted a message from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s account Kensington Royal.
The mistakenly posted tweet comes after the palace announced new guidelines for interacting with the royal family’s social media accounts in March 2019.
Under the guidelines, which were created to “help create a safe environment on all social media channels run by The Royal Family, Clarence House and Kensington Palace”, the palace said comments must not “contain spam, be defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory or promote sexually explicit material or violence,” nor can they “promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age”.
The palace also said it reserves the right to “hide or delete comments made on our channels, as well as block users who do not follow these guidelines”.
