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Gordon Brown’s toddler son tweets on wife’s Twitter page

Sarah Brown learns a lesson after leaving her son unsupervised with her computer

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Posted: 9 December 2009
by Tessa Watkins
The toddler son of Gordon Brown and wife Sarah caused havoc on their computer last week

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has admitted that a tweet by his toddler son taught him how important internet supervision is. “Last week, people who follow my wife, Sarah, on Twitter received a message of gobbledegook, which my younger son Fraser had bashed out on the keys and then pressed send while she was out of the room,” he confessed.

Sarah Brown has over a million followers on the site who were surprised to see she had posted a succession of letters that made no sense. Shortly afterwards, she explained the origins of her unusual tweet, “In future, I will turn my computer off when I’m not using it to save energy and avoid junior tweet interference.”

“It started with our mistake and, of course, it was a mistake not to supervise the internet and we were taught a big lesson as a result of that,” said Gordon.

Has your toddler ever created havoc on your computer? Let us know below…


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So what do you think?

Susanne Robertson
haha! This hasn't happened to me yet, but I'm very careful to switch my computer off when I'm not using it because I know it fascinates Bea! The keyboard seems to draw her in - I'm sure she'll manage to get to it when my back is turned one day! About 3 years ago
youngmummy
My 2 yr old has opened the laptop and pressed the power button before, luckily we have a password on it and the battery was flat!  We try not to use it when the girls are up but we have bigger problems with the cat - likes to sit on the keyboard to get my husband's attention! About 3 years ago
theoldwomanwholivesinashoe

Not quite the same,but at 5 my eldest memorised the pin on the interactive TV , andordered £70 worth of movies for us.We were not pleased.Last year,aged 9,he hacked a schoolfriend's email account and used it to send malicious emails to two ex teachers from his school.

We have our pc on all the time,we use it lots.Matilda's regularly resetting things.She adds those gadgets when you see the clock or slideshow pictures at one side.Her most annoying trick is rotating the whole screen so no one can use it.

About 3 years ago
x.Laura.x
im missing several keys on my laptop thanks to lola and the lovely darlings fought so strongly over the charger the other day they ripped the plug clean off, ah kids, gotta love em! About 3 years ago
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