TAKE COVER! (jk) L.A. Times deletes automated tweet announcing MASSIVE earthquake … from 1925

Oopsie.

Please note: We just deleted an automated tweet saying there was a 6.8 earthquake in Isla Vista. That earthquake happened in 1925.

— L.A. Times: L.A. Now (@LANow) June 22, 2017

So many things are automated these days … SkyNet anyone?

Uh oh: Looks like Quakebot — the Skynet of seismology — is becoming self-aware: pic.twitter.com/Pd2sKTuZ0h

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) June 22, 2017

Are you Sarah Connor? (bonus points if you read that in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice)

Back in 1925 we were all on 56k dialup, and tweets were slow to process.

— InsideHoops.com NBA (@InsideHoops) June 22, 2017

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