For the hardcore addicts, Twitter is all about RTs, sly tweets, building up armies of followers and fretting over unfollows. This is a satirical look at how some people can't think beyond tweets and retweets.
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Diary of a Twitter Addict
In The Government We Trust
Tweet The past few weeks have been disturbing. Riots in Assam. A minor riot in Mumbai. A prolonged curfew in Bareilly, and god knows what other small towns. Crackdown on social media. The iPhone 5 has still not been launched. To make it worse, my favorite people have been voted out of Jhalak Dikhla Ja....
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The Day The Internet Went Down
Tweet 12 April 2014 A billion Indian citizens woke up today to a world without one of the basic necessities of modern life. Not food. Not water. Not the roofs on top of their head. Not even the daily dose of Arnab. Something much bigger. The Internet. In an emergency order, the central govt...
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Dial T for Twitter Addiction
Tweet The other day my mom asked me to explain Twitter to her. As someone who spends my days feeding the smartest possible one-liners to my army of Twitter followers, yours truly is certainly more than qualified to introduce her to the magic. So i brushed my shoulders, turned up the collar of (much...
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7 Stages of Twitter Outrage
Tweet Stage 1: Information This is when there are scattered reports of some calamity in a land far, far, away. A land far enough away for the twitterati to not be directly affected. People hunt around for news reports. Any available piece of information gets tweeted and retweeted, till panic sets in. Stage 2:...
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The 15 Commandments of Twitter
Tweet 1. Thou shall never claim in public that you care about your follower count. 2. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s followers. 3. Thou shall not post provocative DPs. Let’s keep it G rated. 4. Thou shall never add thyself to thy lists. That’s just plain cheap. 5. Thou shall not plug a...
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Twitter Killed the Blogger
Tweet Once upon a time, in a land far far away, lived a blogger. Lets call him Arnab. Actually scratch that - cant mess around with such powerful names. Let’s just call him a simpler Ajit. Ajit was cool. He was funny, witty, satirical, had strong opinions, wrote beautifully. People loved him. All 216...
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Twitter Roundup - 2010 In Review
Tweet 2010 was an eventful year, which in India translates into tremendous potential for humor. You cant survive this country without a funny bone, and our politicians and media provide a continuous stream of fodder for the comedians. Here’s a compilation of some of my funny/punny tweets from this year. India released 25 Pak militants yday....
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The Onion Has Spoken
Tweet The humble Onion finally gets its 15 minutes of fame, reaching the dizzying heights of Rs 80/kg. As always, Twitter is abuzz giving the veggy the credit it has finally earned. For the ones who missed the action, here’s a compilation of some of the funnier comments. Read and enjoy. @sidin: Rajnikanth has...
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Twitter Roundup - Vol 3
Tweet Here’s a compilation of some of my funny posts on Twitter from the month of July. Read and enjoy! Young Indian techies don’t need Deepak Chopra. Pizza is much more motivating. Isn’t rahul mahajan the ass who laughs like a horse? Rahul Mahajan should marry Sarah Jessica Parker. They can then gallop away...
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Indian English Gains Global Acceptance
Tweet Today was another historic day for India. SM Krishna may not have managed to twist some unfriendly-neighbor testicle in Pakistan, but Indian tweeps won yet another battle today. After #SachinIsGod and #BharatBandh, we have another Indian topic trending worldwide on Twitter. #IndianEnglish - That sweet sweet language which has inspired many poems all...
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T For Twitter
Tweet Unless you have been living under a rock these past few months you would have heard of Twitter. Alright alright, don’t come down so hard on yourself…main hoon na! So Twitter is this new micro blogging platform that has taken the technology world blogging world entire world by storm. Suddenly there’s celebrities going...
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