A Boise news anchor became an instant celebrity on Tuesday after his post accidentally posted on his biography page in their otherwise-breaking news feed, prompting a lot of quippy responses on Twitter.
Following the tweet, Mark Johnson, a news anchor at the NBC affiliate of the Gem State capital, KTVB, expanded his coverage area beyond West Mountain.
The tweet caught the attention of Idaho Republican Governor Brad Little, other Idaho figures, as well as national brands such as Splenda, based in Fort Washington, PA.
Little appeared to compose a false campaign statement, writing, “As your governor, my goal is to make Idaho a place for Mark Johnson to choose to live and for Mark Johnsons who left to choose to return.”
Senator James Risch, R-Idaho, redistributed the bio tweet, writing “Mark Johnson really is.”
Johnson called the disaster “pretty hilarious” and predicted that his teenage daughters could have a hand in the tweet.
“All I can say is that I will get them back for that! (But probably not) “, he wrote.
Looks like Johnson’s daughters weren’t involved. KTVB producer Celina Van Hyning later posted on Twitter that she had updated Johnson’s biography on the station’s website and posted the link.
“I happened to send ‘Mark Johnson’ on Twitter and now Idaho Twitter thinks I’m a hero,” she wrote on her Twitter profile.
Cleveland, Ohio’s local ABC affiliate, WEWS, disagreed, sending on Twitter that their meteorologist Mark Johnson is “the most” Mark Johnson.