Corrections and cover-ups: why Twitter is great

For a short while on Friday (19 March 2010), Telegraph.co.uk had the embarrassing phrase “Large Hardon Collider” in a headline.

Dubbed “the typo we’ve been waiting for” by Gizmodo, the hilarious - and painful - error was soon corrected.  Later that afternoon, the only evidence was a screenshot, taken by freelance writer and twitterer Rebecca Watson, and the Telegraph’s own tweet on Twitter, via @tnuk: