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#BobbyJindalissowhite: Twitteratis respond to Jindal’s ‘hyphenated’ remark

June 25, 2015

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By NewsGram Staff Writer

Bobby Jindal became the ‘Twitter-Stopper’ for the day when he made hypocritic statements about being a migrated Indo-American. According to him, people who migrated from different countries to America should not be considered as ‘Hyphenated-Americans’ anymore, but simply Americans. His insecurity became a matter of public outrage when twitteratis took upon the Twitter to show their discontentment regarding his statements. All of a sudden, ‘#BobbyJindalissowhite’ started trending in Twitter and he became the butt of a few hilarious jokes. Interestingly, not just Indians but also Indo-Americans joined this trolling movement and expressed their disappointment. Some of the most shared tweets can be seen here.

#BobbyJindalIsSoWhite that it would be impossible to search him if he is lost in Antarctica!

— Archit Kansal (@archit610) June 25, 2015

#BobbyJindalIsSoWhite the white house will be renamed Bobby House — Siddharth Sadanandan (@Siddharth25197) June 25, 2015

#BobbyJindalIsSoWhite teacher used to use him as a chalk on board

— aindrila (@falana_dimkhana) June 25, 2015

— ૐ Multum in Parvo ૐ (@ashish299) June 25, 2015

#BobbyJindalIsSoWhite that he’s approached to play Snow White in the Disney’s sequel of “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs” — Aladdin (@Alllahdin) June 25, 2015

The Indian equivalent to “Uncle Tom” will now be “Uncle Bobby.” #bobbyjindalissowhite

— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) June 25, 2015

#bobbyjindalissowhite he almost replaced Shahrukh Khan on this commercial. pic.twitter.com/IQstmeCq9R — Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) June 25, 2015

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Shraddha Kapoor Approaches for Animal Safety this Diwali

Shraddha Kapoor takes a stand on animal safety this Diwali. She posted on her Twitter handle to be kind to street animals and make this Diwali a noise free and eco-friendly one.

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October 18, 2017

Mumbai, Oct 18: Actress Shraddha Kapoor has taken a stand favoring the animals in the festive season of Diwali.

Shraddha has a pet dog Shylo, and the actress has always expressed her concern for animals on various occasions.

With Diwali inching closer, Shraddha took to Twitter to appeal to her fans to not burst firecrackers, for the sake of animals.

She shared a video saying: “Diwali is coming – the festival of lights… not of noise and air pollution. Help keep the air clean and be sensitive to the animals on the streets.”

The actress added: “This is that time of the year when Diwali is just around the corner and I just wanted to say that please don’t buy firecrackers and don’t burst firecrackers.

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“Not only does it cause a lot of pollution but it also troubles all the animals on the streets.”

Shraddha further urged her fans to have a safe Diwali by spending time with family as she wished her fans.

“Instead, spend Diwali with your family, with your loved ones eat amazing food, eat sweets and don’t burst crackers. Happy Diwali.”

On the work front, the actress is currently working on the trilingual “Saaho” with Prabhas. Shraddha has recently returned to Mumbai after wrapping the first schedule of the film in Hyderabad. (IANS)

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No Diwali, Birthday Celebrations for Amitabh Bachchan This Year

The Bollywood took to Twitter to reveal his plans to his followers

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October 8, 2017

Mumbai, October 8, 2017 : Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says this year he will not be celebrating the festival of lights Diwali or his 75th birthday, which falls on October 11.

T 2571 – …. and just for your information .. no Diwali celebration this year !! pic.twitter.com/ux3GvzJxWF

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) October 7, 2017

Though Big B didn’t give the reason, his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s father Krishnaraj Rai passed away in March after several days of illness.

“India thrash Australia in T20, Pink Panthers’ extraordinary convincing win, thunderstorm cancels shoot, 30 million on Twitter, and just for your information… no Diwali celebration this year,” Amitabh tweeted on Saturday night.

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Twitter to Double its Character Limit to 280 Characters ; Here is What Twitterati has to say!

Cannot fit your tweet into 140 characters? Worry not; Twitter may soon allow you to tweet using 280 characters!

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September 27, 2017

California, September 27, 2017: We all can understand the aggravation of being unable to convey our thoughts on Twitter, courtesy its 140 character-constraint. However, in an astonishing move, Twitter has decided to increase the character limit on tweets to enable its users to convey more information and meaning.

The micro-blogging site that previously allowed users to tweet using 140 characters will now allow them to convey meaning in a whopping 280 characters- double the previous limit.

“This is a small change, but a big move for us”, believes the chief executive of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.

This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence! https://t.co/TuHj51MsTu

— jack (@jack) September 26, 2017

The decision came following a research previously carried out by Twitter that revealed that double the amount of information per character could be in conveyed in a variety of languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean than what users could in English, Spanish or French among others. This was a growing cause of frustration among Twitter users from the latter language clusters.

The research thus led to the decision to roll out this new attribute.

However, not every Twitter user will be able to avail this service just yet. Twitter is currently testing the new attribute only with a small division of its 328 million clients before choosing whether to dispatch the feature for everybody.

As soon as the social media giant made their formal announcement about the 280 character expansion on September 26, internet reactions were swift and mostly negative, questioning the irrelevant character change.

This is how Twitterati reacted to the latest change,

No need of #280characters please. If you want to write eassy, go to Facebook or blogger. Short is classy and beauty of Twitter.

— Ganesh Shelke (@ganeshshelke272) September 27, 2017

With #280characters More Facebook Novel writers Will move to Twitter.

— Laz (@Lazooj) September 27, 2017

Twitter, sometimes one needs to be loquacious and for those moments #280Characters is incredibly great; can’t wait!

— Mouniér Naseer (@MounierCo) September 27, 2017

A small group can now tweet 280 characters instead of 140. Let’s hope Trump is NOT a member of this small group. https://t.co/MNlhXFOSUW

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) September 26, 2017

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While users have been increasingly questioning the new move and calling it ‘unnecessary’, the official announcement from Twitter accepted that the new 280-character move is only aimed at creating a more inclusive and equal platform for users of different languages. The announcement also reiterated that Twitter is synonymous with brevity and “that is something we will never change.”

Over the past years, users have been witnessing multiple changes in Twitter’s 140-character constraint. In a previous move earlier this year, the micro-blogging site had removed @ replies from its limits and exempted photos, videos and quotes. This new move is now being hailed as another exemption of the character restrictions.

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