It would seem that some are getting a little too excited for the new year — accidentally scheduling their New Year wishes to go live many hours before midnight.
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From Australia to Britain, people have been outsmarted by technology.
The Tower Bridge in London tweeted: 'Happy New Year from everyone here at Tower Bridge!" at midnight, one night too soon.
The post was quickly taken down, but not quickly enough. A screenshot of the tweet is doing the rounds on social media.
Admitting to their mistake, the team running the account saw the humorous side to it and said "Oops, guess we got a little too excited there..."
They weren't the only ones prematurely excited for 2016. The Eureka Sky Deck in Melbourne also wished their followers a happy new year before being caught by Twitter user Jeff Waugh.
The Eureka Sky deck wrote: "Happy new Year love the team at the #EurekaSkydeck! We wish you all the best in 2016! #melbourne."
Twitter is expecting millions of people to take to the service to send out their well wishes. The company has even unveiled a new emoji to spread the festive cheer.
The firework emoji will be unlocked when users include the hashtag #HappyNewYear in one of more than 35 languages at the end of their Tweet.
