When you finish scrolling through your Facebook news feed, do you usually have a bunch of notifications on Twitter? And by the time you get done with the little blue bird, does the filtered terrain of Instagram demand your attention?
Here then, just for you, is a handy wrap of all the topics that kept social media platforms buzzing this week.
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Is there *anything* Gayle and Kohli can’t instantly make cooler?
No. The answer is no.
Canadian PM and All-Around-Awesome-Person Justin Trudeau sent out his Invictus Games challenge to the US President and British Royals in style.
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CIA’s decision to commemorate the fifth anniversary of their raid on Osama Bin Laden through ‘live-tweeting’ the event inaugurated a week of bad social media decisions. On the heels of that came Hollywood director Woody Allen’s spectacularly creepy interview where he congratulated himself for rescuing his wife Soon-Yi after her traumatic upbringing. Daaaamn, Allen.
On the Indian front, Parliament sessions hogged social media space, with the usual drama of repeated uproar by opposition parties and endless adjournment. This culminated in a ‘March for Democracy’ conducted by Congress, currently implicated in AgustaWestland scam. JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, meanwhile, withdrew from the hunger strike against JNU administration on the 10th day, at the behest of his doctors.
Other topics that showed up on user feeds everywhere include rampant speculation over the course of TV drama ‘Game of Thrones’, general jubilation over the release of Marvel’s ‘Captain America: Civil War’, and a back and forth between Buzzfeed India and Scroll over a Buzzfeed article on the ‘urban poverty’ of millennials.
Twitter Trends
#CIA
The week started with a mini-explosion on social media when the CIA made the spectacularly ill-advised decision to ‘live-tweet’ the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. This action, a way to mark the fifth anniversary of the event, drew the ire of Twitterati.
#MetGala2016
Celebrities unleashed tech-themed haute couture at the Met Gala on Monday night in New York, true to the “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” theme for this year’s Costume Institute exhibition.
#NationalFilmAwards
The 63rd National Film Awards were presented to Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Kangana Ranaut in the best actor and actress category on Tuesday evening.
#KanganaRanaut
Amidst all the name calling with Adhyayan Suman and Hrithik Roshan, Kangana Ranaut opened up in two interviews recently to share her part of the story. Needless to say, she won several hearts with her unapologetic feminism.
#NobelPeacePrize
Art of Living founder and spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s recent statement that he had been offered the Nobel Prize but refused to accept it brought out the funny side of many a Twitterati on Monday.
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