{"id":255762,"date":"2022-11-05T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=255762"},"modified":"2022-11-05T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T17:54:00","slug":"kamariya-kare-lapalap-when-fake-musk-tweeted-in-bhojpuri-and-people-fell-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/05\/kamariya-kare-lapalap-when-fake-musk-tweeted-in-bhojpuri-and-people-fell-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"“Kamariya Kare Lapalap” : When Fake Musk Tweeted In Bhojpuri, And People Fell For It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elon Musk has been quick with big changes at Twitter within a week of buying it. (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Social media users were bewildered as Twitter’s new chief\u00a0Elon Musk was seen to be tweeting in Hindi and Bhojpuri \u2014 until it turned out that the whole thing was fake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elon Musk, from his real handle,<\/a> was busy reinforcing his move to charge $8 per month for blue tick (‘verified’) users and the mass layoffs.<\/p>\n

Amid this came posts from a verified handle\u00a0@iawoolford that had changed the display name to “Elon Musk”. Now suspended, the handle originally belongs to Ian Woolford, an American-Australian Hindi professor\u00a0who works at a university in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

With the hashtag #TwitterLayoffs, when it shared some sarcastic posts \u2014 as well as some Hindi film dialogues and Bhojpuri songs \u2014 people at first glance thought it’s the tech billionaire himself.<\/p>\n

The display picture for @iawoolford, too, had been changed to the one Elon Musk uses on his Twitter profile.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the tweets read, “This bird is sold.” It used the line with the viral “gormint bik gayi”<\/em> meme.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This time the broom will run, this time the broom will run! The broom will hit the corrupt Twitter!!” read another tweet, playing on the AAP’s poll symbol and anti-corruption slogans.<\/p>\n

There was a Bollywood angle too, using a famous dialogue from the movie, ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, said by Shahrukh Khan’s character: “Small things like this keep happening in big countries… isn’t it?”<\/p>\n

Another tweet used a famous Bhojpuri song: “Kamariya Kare Lapalap, Key Lollipop Lagelu<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Mr Woolford’s profile on the university website lists his research interests: “Hindi language and Literature, North Indian folklore, Maithili and Bhojpuri languages, and LGBTQ+ Movements in South Asia”.\u00a0It says he can read\/write\/speak\u00a0Hindi, Urdu and Persian; besides knowing Sanskrit,\u00a0Bhojpuri and\u00a0Maithili.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t immediately clear if Mr Woolford was joking around or if his handle was being misused.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Elon Musk remained unaffected by the criticism he has been receiving over his decision to charge Twitter users to get verified accounts.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Musk took to Twitter and reiterated his stance on the blue tick fee.\u00a0“Trash me all day, but it’ll cost $8,” he tweeted.<\/p>\n

After Elon Musk became the new CEO of Twitter, reports circulated on social media that stated the microblogging site would charge $20 per month for blue verification badge. On Tuesday, he confirmed the reports and announced that the company will charge $8 a month for Twitter’s subscription service with priority in replies, mentions, and searches.<\/p>\n

He has also been receiving a lot of hate on Twitter for laying off employees. Defending his decision to fire employees, Musk said that it was needed as Twitter was losing more than $4 million per day.\u00a0“Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50 pc more than legally required,” he tweeted.<\/p>\n

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