A woman called Sarah O'Connor tweets about a robot killing a VW worker and Twitter goes on Terminator overdrive

A Financial Times correspondent tweeted about a robot that killed a worker in a VW plant in Germany. So why is she suddenly a celebrity on Twitter and is actually asking people not to follow her?

All because of her innocuous name and a popular film franchise.

The woman in question, is named Sarah O’Connor and she was talking about a killer robot. Sounds familiar?

Maybe because a certain Sarah Connor is the female protagonist in the Terminator franchise and a fan favorite in the films about evil robots and saving the human race. Now that’s called coincidence!

A robot has killed a worker in a VW plant in Germany http://t.co/RRdCnNmbsj

— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) July 1, 2015

Soon her unwitting tweet sparked off a flurry of hilarious responses from fans of the series. Her notifications were flooded with warnings for her to run from Skynet and pleas to keep John Connor safe. Not having watched the movie herself, the confused O’Connor soon realized the implications of sharing your name with a popular fictional character.

She quickly clarified on twitter saying the she hasn’t watched the movies, doesn’t know what Skynet is and even reiterated that a person has died!

But that didn’t stop fans from following her for her fictional namesake. O’Connor then asked people not to follow her because she tweets “really boring stuff about unit wage costs and the like”. Ultimately she had to give up and asked people not to forget that somebody had died in real life.

@sarahoconnor_ Ok. I should have thought about my name & its associations before tweeting this!

— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) July 1, 2015

@sarahoconnor_ Sigh. I've never even watched the films. Now my feed is full of people tweeting me about skynet.

— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) July 1, 2015

@sarahoconnor_ Guys. I don't know what skynet is. And I wouldn't follow me - I tweet really boring stuff about unit wage costs and the like.

— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) July 1, 2015

Feeling really uncomfortable about this inadvertent Twitter thing I seem to have kicked off. Somebody died. Let's not forget.

— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) July 1, 2015

@sarahoconnor_ You are our only hope now. Resistance fully supports you as our leader.

— FakeJourno (@FakeJourno) July 1, 2015

Please @sarahoconnor_ take care of John Connor, he is our only hope now!

— Nicolas Fraiman (@nicolasfraiman) July 1, 2015

.@sarahoconnor_ skynet is close, run Sarah, ruN!!!

— Erick Iriarte Ahon (@coyotegris) July 1, 2015

While we cannot say if O’Connor is even going to tweet or talk about robots again, we can safely say that Twitter will have a meltdown when reel life collides with real life!