Every one of us generally commits or makes mistakes and it is the human aura. We err, we make mistakes, and we also make typos. But there will be also the time and limit of making mistakes, not always.
If it is the official Twitter account of Ministry of Finance of the country, then those mistakes lead to a high extent.
Earlier this week, the CNN News 18 channel broke the news that a person had been arrested in Delhi for secretly selling firecrackers and the channel took to their Twitter handle to share the news. “#NewsAlert — One apprehended in Delhi for selling crackers to people secretly #CrackerFreeDiwali #NoiseFreeDiwali #Diwali,” the tweet read.
#NewsAlert — One apprehended in Delhi for selling crackers to people secretly #CrackerFreeDiwali #NoiseFreeDiwali #Diwali pic.twitter.com/Rbgm3RfBIZ
— News18 (@CNNnews18) October 18, 2017
But, surprisingly, they probably didn’t expect the Ministry of Finance to reply to its tweet. And the literary quality of the response must have been another surprise.
After the Ministry of Finance replied to the channel’s tweet, Twitter users have scratched their heads for two hours and tried to make sense of two tweets by the finance ministry which said, ‘Sawa we h we s see see’ and ‘Ess’.
It took a long time to the ministry to delete the messages, definitely enough time for Twitterati to have fun at its expense. The unintelligible words instantly caught Twitterati’s fancy, giving rise to jokes related to demonetization and the country’s tax system.
Twitter Reactions:
Is this next tax collection scheme 🤔
— Vishal Surywanshi (@vsurywanshi87) October 20, 2017
Kehna kya chahte ho
— Vicky 007 (@sonivivek1) October 20, 2017
Bhai aab kaunse account ko Aadhar se link karna hai..
— Abhi (@abhimay) October 20, 2017
Explanation of GST in one line.
— maal-nutrition (@Shahcarsm) October 20, 2017
I think you are drunk with Cess
— Rishi Kapoor (@Chintscrap) October 20, 2017
This is the equivalent of #Covfefe of Indian Government @sanjayuvacha
— Avalok Sastri (@avalok) October 20, 2017
Sir mobile screen lock kar diya karo jeb mein daalne se pahle😂😂😂
— ↫♨ ιи∂ι¢.जनेऊधारी ♨↬ (@Narsimha_77) October 20, 2017
Demonetization 2.0 coming up
— Vinay Kumar Dokania (@vinaydokania) October 20, 2017
Sir it’s Cess not Ess
— Amit Shah (@amitshaah_) October 20, 2017
Twitter users called it Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s covfefe moment, citing US President Donald Trump’s tweets which social media had a fun time deciphering. President Trump’s incomplete, misspelled tweet in May this year read, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” The tweet unleashed a torrent of reactions from Twitter users, who tried to define the term.
But what on earth did those cryptic tweets mean? Why were they sent to a media company’s Twitter handle? And why were they allowed to stay on the ministry’s page for so long?
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