Twitter was abuzz Monday night after a curious tweet was posted for about three hours from the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water.
Just what did the agency, whose Twitter bio notes it is "working for clean water for all Americans," write about that enthralled and, well, puzzled? What else, Kim Kardashian.
"I'm now a C-List celebrity in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. Come join me and become famous too by playing on iPhone!" the tweet said along with a link to an app for a game.
Michigan Congressman John Dingell had some questions about the tweet, so he took to Twitter to get to the bottom of it.
"I'm the last original author of the Clean Water Act, but I have no idea who/what a Kardashian is and I rarely play games. You OK, @EPAwater?" Dingell tweeted.
The tweet was deleted around 9:45 p.m.
The wildly popular Kim Kardashian: Hollywood app is one of the most downloaded in the Apple online store, according to the company. In it, the user creates a celebrity in their likeness, then, through quests, attempts to become a superstar.
Why the tweet was posted by the account was not immediately clear. The verified account, which has 52,000 followers, may have been hacked, or it's possible that a social media manager meant to tweet the message from a personal account.
Either way, more than an hour after the tweet was posted, it was still up, with no explanation from EPA officials.
And the Internet was having a field day with it.
The previous tweet from the @EPAwater account -- which urged followers to "#ditchthemyth about our proposal to protect clean water. Read the facts at http://go.usa.gov/XdkQ" -- had just four retweets and one favorite.
As for the Kardashian missive? By the time it went missing from the @EPAwater page it had more than 3,000 retweets, with the sentiment in favor of laughing.
Said @mcmcarthyjames: "I really hope no one gets fired for this because it made me laugh for hours!"
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Copyright © 2014, Los Angeles Times10:09 p.m. This story was updated with more information on the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood app.
9:38 p.m. This story was updated to include Michigan Congressman John Dingell's tweet at the EPA and that the tweet had been deleted.
This story was originally published at 9:05 p.m.
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