Hacked? Sky News butt of Twitter jokes after tweeting, 'Colin was here'

The hot buzzing question on Twitter right now is, “Who is Colin?” [caption id=“attachment_781805” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Screengrab from Sky News[/caption] A bizarre tweet from the British news agency Sky News simply reading “Colin is here” garnered almost 6000 Retweets and 2000 ‘favourites’ from around the world. The tweet is still up on the Sky News handle and is gathering popularity at the speed of light. There are even attempts to create a trending #ColinWasHere hashtag. We’re not sure if the handle has been hacked, but it is quite significant that the tweet is still up, and that nothing new has been posted on to the Twitter handle since then. The Syrian Electronic Army in the recent past has been accused of hacking social media feeds of a number of well known Twitter handles, such as AP, The Guardian and even for some bizarre reason, the satire news agency ‘The Onion’ Here are some of the responses to the Sky News tweet:

Today, we are all Colin.

— Tom Phillips (@flashboy) May 14, 2013

#colinwashere

— BuzzFeed UK (@BuzzFeedUK) May 14, 2013

Whoever "Colin" is, he has won the InterWebs already today.

— David Clinch (@DavidClinchNews) May 14, 2013

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Confirmed? / @SkyNewsBreak: Colin was here

— David Clinch (@DavidClinchNews) May 14, 2013

I, for one, welcome our new Colin overlord. pic.twitter.com/76lfsY6jEV

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) May 14, 2013

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