+John Teacake MVC Posted June 25, 2014 MVC Share Posted June 25, 2014 Is the BBC News App Hijacked? Just got this Push Notification....Anyone else got this in the UK? Steven P. and The Evil Overlord 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 beats me why News sites need an 'app'. Torolol and Raa 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted June 25, 2014 Author MVC Share Posted June 25, 2014 I would say that its perfect for a news site to have a news app torrentthief and MikeChipshop 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I had this too, seems a bit weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCac Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Also had this, twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipsylalapo Supervisor Posted June 25, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted June 25, 2014 It's probably a test gone wrong, unless it happens again... Javascript is not enabled or refresh the page to view. Click here to view the Tweet Edit - they just tweeted that it was a mistake. Panic over :p Gerowen 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 ^ And the perv BBC employee has been fired. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i11usive Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 PMSL -- egg + face!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted June 25, 2014 Member Share Posted June 25, 2014 Someone forgot to tick the the 'development' box when testing the push! hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i11usive Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Betcha the culprit got a massive bollocking ... or as Hum said, received his marching orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i11usive Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 It hit Sky News -- http://news.sky.com/story/1289027/bizarre-message-sent-after-bbc-news-app-error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick H. Supervisor Posted June 25, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted June 25, 2014 Interesting. Although did this only affect i-users? The only shots I can find are from iPhones/iPads, and I don't remember seeing such a notification on my Android when I woke up this morning...but then it looks like the push notifications for breaking news works slightly differently between devices, so that's entirely possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipsylalapo Supervisor Posted June 25, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted June 25, 2014 It made the new. Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ_ Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I wonder if they did a push for this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28014806 dipsylalapo 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick H. Supervisor Posted June 25, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted June 25, 2014 Oh, and way to spoil the last episode of GoT for me, BBC... The Evil Overlord 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I don't see why someone should lose their job over this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipsylalapo Supervisor Posted June 25, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted June 25, 2014 ^ Yep agree, I'm sure it won't happen, that would be taking it a little far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intersect Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Perhaps this push message may have been sent out from a development build of the application used for testing and not directly from the BBC.? non the less its epic that this got sent out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted June 25, 2014 Author MVC Share Posted June 25, 2014 Yeah accidental push to a Production Server rather than Dev would be my guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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