Social media can be a tricky business too as the more popular you are, the more followers you will have and that just means that each of your move (tweet) would be monitored and there is no scope for faux pas.
Twitter is almost like a huge country with 307 million monthly active users. Ergo, like in a country, social media can be tricky business too as the more popular you are, the more followers you will have and that just means that each of your move (tweet) would be monitored and there is no scope for faux pas.
However, some of the famous personalities have learnt their lesson on social media the harsh way.
Here's a list of 10 tweets of 2015 that created uproar on social media:
Chetan Bhagat
In the wake of 'award wapsi' controversy, these tweets by Bhagat brought him flak for being judgemental; Twitteratis in turn judged him for what for the 'what he does as a writer?'
Sonam Kapoor
Misogynistic?!
'Sonam needs to be gifted a dictionary,' was a unanimous call.
Rishi Kapoor
Always on the wrong side of his Twitterati fans, this time over meat ban.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Calling for attention? Supporting Salman Khan? Being arrogant? or just being insensitive?
Facing criticism from the whole nation, he had to delete his tweet.
Salman Khan
Among series of tweets, Salman asked Yakub Memon to be spared, "Brother is being hanged for tiger. Aarree whr is tiger?", "Get tiger hang him. Parade him not his brother," and so on. This led to a major controversy online, as well as offline.
He had to retract his comments later and apologise for them.
Shruti Sheth
There may or may not have been reforms in the country post her tweet, but Shruti Seth's life did change because she was trolled, her family targeted and harassed to the extent that she ended up elaborating the trouble in a letter.
Anushka Sharma
Getting a former President's name wrong on social media can be disastrous, who knows that better other than Anushka Sharma?
Not once; for her three times was the charm..
Raveena Tandon
Raveena's ghost of the past would not leave her as they came to haunt her after five months. The tweet that had posted during Indo-Pak match, came to limelight in July 2015 and she was accused of being gender insensitive.
Sonakshi Sinha
Your followers are quick to notice when you change your stand, Sonakshi Sinha received flak for voicing her opinion against meat ban, while she had earlier seeked a ban on sale of animal-tested cosmetics.
Arvind Kejriwal
This tweet by Arvind Kejriwal when his office was raided by CBI led to a massive political row, with Twitteratis taking potshots at him saying that the CBI team that conducted the raid found 'h' missing in his tweet.
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