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Shashi Tharoor’s eloquent tweet had Twitter in splits

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is known to be articulate, recently spiked Google search for the word ‘Farrago’ with just a tweet, and Twitter couldn’t contain itself.

Published on: May 9, 2017, 17:55:23 IST
Hindustan Times | By , New Delhi
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Although Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was slamming a TV channel and a journalist reporting on his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death in his tweet, the Twitter-world was much amused at the choice of his words.

Congress MP Sashi Tharoor tweeted, and Twitter exploded.
Congress MP Sashi Tharoor tweeted, and Twitter exploded.

The Oxford graduate’s tweet sent many looking for an Oxford dictionary, while others couldn’t stop cracking jokes.

He tweeted, “Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist.”

His tweet:

And the way he worded his tweet led to a spate of jokes on the microblogging website.

The word Farrago went viral, making it a trending search on Google. Aashish Chandorkar posted the following graph:

And here is how Twitter exploded:

Highlights

FYI: Farrago, according to oxforddictionaries.com, means:
A confused mixture.
‘a farrago of fact and myth about Abraham Lincoln’

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