As a writer in digital media, you come to the realisation that once they’re out there, your words can never really be taken back. I live in constant, gut-wrenching fear of getting it wrong: of missing something so blatantly obvious to everyone but me before I’ve had my first flat white. For someone like Halsey, say—a global superstar with 41 million monthly listeners on Spotify and 12 million Twitter followers—the stakes of making a gaffe are so much higher. 

So, I can only imagine the utter dismay that erupted at Halsey HQ today after the pop star’s seemingly harmless clapback to a pithy album review turned into one of the biggest Twitter blunders since Anthony Weiner mistakenly shared a pic of his bulging undies with the world.

It all started when Pitchfork released their meh review of Halsey’s latest album, Manic. (“So much of this album sounds like the amorphous pop that you might associate with a miserable Lyft ride,” is one of the more scathing lines from the piece.) Halsey wasn’t impressed, tweeting: “can the basement that they run p*tchfork out of just collapse already.”  

Here’s where it gets very incredibly messy for Halsey, because Pitchfork, a Condé Nast publication, is not run from a basement. It’s run from the One World Trade Centre. Yes, Halsey inadvertently wished the collapse of the World Trade Centre…... FUCK.

Halsey quickly deleted her tweet when she realised her mistake, but the damage was done; screenshots. last. forever. She then followed up with an apology, which has also since been deleted. See receipts below. 

Ahh! A salty tweet that went so, SO wrong. I break into a cold sweat just thinking about it.

Written by Alice Griffin, writer and editor-in-chief of MTV Australia. Follow Alice on Twitter @_alicegriffin.