‘Holy switcheroo! Batman Has Grown Bitter,’ Says Vatican Twitter Feed

“Holy switcheroo! Batman has grown bitter, more vengeful with the years,” Vatican Communications accidentally tweeted on March 21.
‘Holy switcheroo! Batman Has Grown Bitter,’ Says Vatican Twitter Feed
3/22/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

“Holy switcheroo! Batman has grown bitter, more vengeful with the years,” is a news story about Batman and his transformations throughout the years. The story also addresses what parents need to be wary of in Batman’s transformation in “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Vatican Communications Twitter feed tweeted the story out to its 61,117 followers on Twitter. The tweet left some people wondering if the Vatican’s social media account had been hacked.

The story was also posted on the Catholic News Service website, the news agency of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“Admittedly some people might have been thrown off by the headline,” said Greg Burke, a Vatican communications adviser, reports the Associate Press. 

But he said that their Twitter feed is automatically updated on their Twitter handle as they take stories from Catholic News Service website. It was an internal system failure due to a non-native English speaker posting the story on the website, according to two Vatican officials, reports AP.