A Boise news anchor immediately became a celebrity on Tuesday after his station accidentally tweeted his biography page in their news, otherwise reserved for news, which sparked a wave of funny responses on Twitter.
Following the tweet, Mark Johnson, a news anchor at the NBC subsidiary KTVB, the capital of the Gem States, has expanded its reach beyond the mountain west.
The tweet caught the attention of Republican Gov. Brad Little of Idaho, other Idaho figures as well as national brands like Splenda, Fort Washington, Pa.
Little apparently drafted a declaratory campaign statement, writing: ‘As your governor, my goal is to make Idaho a place for Mark Johnson to choose to live in, and for the Mark Johnsons who have yet to choose to return. ‘
Senator James Risch, R-Idaho, tweeted the bio-tweet again and wrote ‘Mark Johnson indeed.’
Johnson calls the debacle “pretty hilarious” and predicts that his teenage daughters may have had a hand in the tweet.
‘All I can say is that I’ll get them back for this! (But probably not), ‘he wrote.
Apparently Johnson’s daughters were not involved. KTVB producer Celina Van Hyning later tweeted that she had updated Johnson’s biography on the station’s website and tweeted the link.
“I accidentally tweeted ‘Mark Johnson’ and now Idaho Twitter thinks I’m a hero,” she wrote in her Twitter profile.
Cleveland, the local ABC subsidiary WEWS, in Ohio, disagrees and tweets that their meteorologist Mark Johnson is the “most” Mark Johnson.