US military account mysteriously tweets ‘;l;;gmlxzssaw’

A Monday tweet from the US Strategic Command account had social media users trying to puzzle out the meaning behind a seemingly nonsensical phrase, “;l;;gmlxzssaw.”

The tweet immediately went viral, with Twitter users jokingly speculating whether the cryptic phrase was a nuclear missile launch sequence or some other confidential password.

The military account said shortly after to “disregard” the confusing string of gibberish.

Giant Military Cats, an account dedicated to sharing photoshopped images of enormous feline operating military equipment, shared a screenshot of the incomprehensible tweet, saying “I am in big trouble … ” — implying a cat crawling over a keyboard caused the mishap.

https://twitter.com/giantcat9/status/1376449385895231489?s=20

“It’s a pocket tweet from our nuclear headquarters. Everything’s fine,” former army lieutenant general Mark Hertling tweeted, with a grinning emoji.

It’s a pocket tweet from our nuclear headquarters. Everything’s fine. ????

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 29, 2021

According to the Daily Dot website, the gibberish tweet made by the agency that controls US nukes was actually produced by a small child.

The US Strategic Command’s Freedom of Information Act officer told the website that the tweet had been made while the agency’s Twitter manager momentarily left his computer unattended.

Given the significance of the agency, the tweet also reached followers of the QAnon conspiracy, who were convinced the cryptic message was part of something grander.

Some QAnon influencers are falsely claiming a since-deleted tweet from United States Strategic Command that's gibberish was somehow tied to QAnon (the QAnon community often claims typos are connected to QAnon, but this entire tweet was gibberish). https://t.co/fMj3d5iTD8 pic.twitter.com/u5mqdN7ugW

— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) March 29, 2021

“Absolutely nothing nefarious occurred, i.e., no hacking of our Twitter account,” the official response added.