Text messaging saves unneeded overhead from short conversations like “Where are you?” or “Are you coming tonight”? A couple of days ago I almost sent out an embarrassing text message with my Nokia 6103. I wanted to ask someone if they “Could bring the plates,” but instead almost sent “Could you bring the slaves?”T9 predictive text was on and
apparently Nokia thinks that we would still use the word slave more
often than plate. Really, who uses the word slave unless you are a tech
junky talking about hard drives or one of two love birds.

Using Twitter, a micro-blogging tool, I sometimes forget to
label an update as a “direct message” by prefixing the message with the
letter “d” followed by the destination’s username. One time I publically broadcast my mileage, fill up info, and the price of gas to Twitter when I meant to privately send it to
the nifty gas mileage tracker “@mymilemarker” @ mymilemarker.com. I
realized this a couple minutes later when I noticed that I did not receive a
SMS with my average miles per gallon report. “Oh man… now everyone
knows the mileage on my car.” Thank goodness it wasn’t anything that
private like direct messaging a friend my phone number or my address or
some juicy tidbit about work (like the SSH password).

When Twitter had an IM bot with Google Chat in Gmail, some people,
cough… Repository, would accidentally post messages to their
twitter account thinking that they were actually talking to Bill Bob.

Check out some confessions on Twitter.

Have you ever made an SMS blooper or Twitter blooper? Let’s here it.

Here are some of my favorites:

AmandaGravel: Twitterblooper I tweeted my mobile number to about 1,000 people, and said “Call me right now!” because I thought I was just texting a friend

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I blooper occasionally, even as resent as this morning. Searching for a
drive to tonight’s ultimate frisbee match, I sent this message to
several teammates before realizing the unfortunate typo: “I need a life.”

While I eventually found the lift I needed, I also found a day’s worth of heckling and sarcastic sympathy.

-Rob Maguire

You can follow me on Twitter @kalebdf.

Inspired by this Mashable’s story.