What a Twit.
A Twitter user named 'Sarah' threatened to 'do something really big' in terror-laced tweet to American Airlines, but quickly begged forgiveness when the airline promised to contact the FBI.
'hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan,' Sarah wrote on Sunday. 'I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big bye.'
The airline responded swiftly.
'Sarah, we take these threats very seriously. Your IP address and details will be forwarded to security and the FBI.'
Sarah, using the Twitter handle @QueenDemtriax_, immediately answered with dozens of frantic tweets, claiming she was only a 14-year-old white girl playing a stupid prank.
'I'm so sorry I'm scared now.' she wrote, quickly adding, 'I was joking and it was my friend not me, take her IP address not mine.'
The exchange soon went viral on the social media site as the pleas became more desperate.
'I'm just a fangirl pls I don't have evil thoughts and plus I'm a white girl.'
The Twitterverse soon filled with posters who took up Sarah's pleas for leniency, laughed at her foolishness or speculated the whole thing was a hoax.
Sarah interrupted her appeals for mercy with updates on her growing number of followers before finally deleting her account Sunday night.
American Airlines removed the company's response to Sarah from its account.
'We took it down basically because it generated a lot of traffic,' spokeswoman Dori Alvarez told the Daily News. 'We took it down so we could better focus on our customers.'
She declined to discuss the supposed threat specifically.
'At American, the safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority,' American said in a statement. 'We take security matters very seriously and work with authorities on a case by case basis.'
The FBI didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
dmmurphy@nydailynews.com
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