Anthony Weiner ‘Accidentally’ Favorited a Tweet About Sexting

You gotta be careful with the favorite button on Twitter.

Actually, that’s not true at all. Really, only Anthony Weiner has to be careful with buttons on Twitter, as he learned when he favorited a Vox piece on Tinder that described the dating app as the “ultimate sext machine”:

@mattyglesias WoW @anthonyweiner still doin THAT thing! RT @BuzzFeedAndrew This tweet was favorited by Anthony Weiner pic.twitter.com/uxAts2wnmG

— Holly Brixton (@Rooting4OBAMA) June 13, 2014

Weiner called it an accident. “There were a bunch of favorites there that I either didn’t recognize or mean to favorite,” he said. “I’m not clear on how they got marked in the first place but I assume hit the little star thing accidentally as I scrolled through stuff.”

Weiner tried to crack wise about the incident:

In related news, I did buy 1000 shares of Tinder stock.

— Anthony Weiner (@anthonyweiner) June 13, 2014

And then:

Ok, to recap my day. I accidentally hit the star thingy on a @voxdotcom story about Tinder. Sorry.

— Anthony Weiner (@anthonyweiner) June 13, 2014

Followup question: why is Anthony Weiner still on Twitter?

[h/t CNN]

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