Here's where we (try to) explain 'Aowaaowwoa*QowqQ*'

First of all, we should say that everyone at As It Happens is fine. Badly shaken, and deeply troubled, but fine. 

Second, we still have no idea what happened. Were we hacked? Did we hack ourselves? If so, did we do it accidentally, with one of our butts? Did our Twitter account briefly achieve sentience and was it totally hammered when it did?

Here's what we know for sure: on Wednesday, at 9:23 p.m. precisely, @cbcasithappens issued four tweets.

First:

Then:

Followed immediately by:

And finally, moments later, a climactic:

Now, we have considered the possibility that Jeff would pronounce those tweets incorrectly. So we ran them through an online text-to-speech translator.

First, in a British accent:

As It Happens0:01British accent text-to-speech translator: Aowaaowwoa*QowqQ*

Aowaaowwoa*QowqQ*
And then, a Norwegian one:

As It Happens0:01Norwegian accent text-to-speech translator: Aowaaowwoa*QowqQ*

Aowaaowwoa*QowqQ*

    
Some people stayed remarkably calm during our baffling ordeal — even, bizarrely, appearing to make light of it.

And there were other jokes about our desperate situation.

Our gratitude to everyone who reached out to make sure we were alright and gratitude tinged with resentment to everyone who mocked our pain.