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Category: Twitter Treats

Twitter Treats

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When the Constitutional Amendment Bill to pave the way for GST was passed, the world of Twitter was flooded with GST related tweets. Some of these are shared below for our readers:

@adhia03
We are ready with state of art IT design for GST implementation. Hardware and software will all be ready for testing by january 17.

@v_shrivsatish
Passing of 15 bills including that of GST shows the maturity and the real spirit of cooperative federalism reflected by meaningful debates.

@bhawnakat
In the Lists of items that can’t be understand GST reached at second place!! Wife’s mood still on top

@MVenkaiahNaidu
Congrats to d people of Assam and its CM Shri @ sarbanandsonwal 4 becoming d 1st State 2 ratify GST bill. This time North East has taken lead

Twitter Storm of the month
Often, a controversial tweet by a well known personality causes a storm in the world of social media. This month, there was one such controversial tweet by well known socialite Shobhaa De. Her tweet criticising the Indian contingent’s performance at the Rio Olympics evoked immediate response. Her tweet and some of the responses are reproduced below:

@DeShobhaa
Goal of Team India at the Olympics: Rio jao. Selfies lo. Khaali haath wapas aao. What a waste of money and opportunity.

Abhinav Bindra @Abhinav_Bindra
@DeShobhaa that’s a tad unfair. You should be proud of your athletes perusing human excellence against the whole world.

Nishant Gambhir @madnish30 Aug 8
Not even worth a selfie. If scaring babies was Olympic sport, @DeShobhaa would strike gold!

Ra_Bies@Ra_Bies
By the time our kids put their feet in the swimming pool & scream “Mummy paani bahut thhanda hai”, Micheal Phelps wins another gold medal

#USA @CJBForHeisman Aug 8
If you ever feel useless just remember that someone is a lifeguard for the Olympic #swimming events Ra_Bies

@Ra_Bies 2h2 hours ago
Bill for 6 months maternity leave for women passed. Too glad, ultimately parliament delivered

Zeddonymous @ZeddRebel Aug 10
Trump voter: “I like Trump because he says exactly what he means.” Trump: ‘Somebody shoot my opponent’ Trump voter: ‘He didn’t mean that’

@_Buddha_Quotes
Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or through anger or irritation wish for another to suffer.

@FinMinIndia
Till 5th August 2016, about 20.81 lakh refunds for AY 2016-17(current year returns) totaling Rs 2,922 crore have been issued by IT dept

And here are this month’s recommendations of famous people that you can follow. This time, the celebrities are from the corporate world.

Aanand Mahindra @anandmahindra
Harsh Mariwala @hcmariwala
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw @kiranshaw
Nita Mukesh Ambani @NitaMAmbani
Bill Gates @BillGates
Richard Branson @richardbranson
Ronnie Screwvala @RonnieScrewvala
Uday Kotak @udaykotak
Sajjan Jindal @sajjanjindal59
Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka

COMPILERS NOTE

This month’s
Twitter Treats would obviously be dominated by the event that has shaken up the
whole of India – Demonetization of the currency notes. Since 8th November
evening, thousands of tweets on this subject have been sent out. Here are some
of the interesting ones:

@patelameet 

Earthquake
measuring 10 on the Rich – chor scale hits the black money hoarders in India
#indiafightscorruption

@joshikhushboo7

Country’s
detoxification on! #DeMonitization

@rishibagree              

Journalist
snubbed his driver when he asked Rs 500 advance After #DeMonetisation
same journo called the driver & gave him 12 months advance

@b50

I saw one
shop accept an old Rs 500 note for a Rs80 item and give back change,
smilingly. The customer told her God Bless You. Respect.

@DrGarekar

#IncomeTax
must be taught from Nursery so that paying taxes become ingrained in DNA of
every child as he grows to adulthood & start earning

@PawanDurani

UPA which
said Rs 30 is sufficient for daily expense of a common man in India for
a day is complaining about Rs 2000 withdrawal limit #Irony

@navinkhaitan

Congratulations
those who got the Rs 2000 note U hv successfully cleared Level1 Level2:
Find someone to accept the note n give u change

@anilkumble1074

Massive
googly bowled by our Hon. PM @narendramodi today. Well done Sir! Proud of you!!

@patelameet 

More notes
will be counted tonight in India than votes in USA #indiafightscorruption

@kapsology

ATMs giving
only Rs 2000 note if you withdraw Rs 2000. Iss note ka achaar
daale kya? No one is going to give change for it in the market.

@FortunateYogi

I want to
have a meal of Rs. 80 and all I have is a 2000 note, for which no
one gives me change. #MyExperience #ConfusedModiSarkar

@coolfunnytshirt

One out of
many positive side effects of #Demonitization – It has unmasked many
‘neutral’, ‘unbiased’ and ‘apolitical’ people on our TL.

@gauravcsawant

My first Rs
2000 note. Almost didn’t want it to go. Then the vegetable vendor said: the
more it changes hands better for all of us :))

@rameshsrivats 

Maybe we can
call this ATM calibration issue a Why-2K problem?

@rameshsrivats 

Good that we
are diverting cash from shady purposes to shaadi purposes.

@rameshsrivats 

ATM:
Welcome. Please enter PIN.

Rahul: Here,
take.

ATM: Ouch!
Not that pin.

And here are
some more tweets worth reading!

@graphic_foodie

I never love
my husband more than when he does my tax return #truelove

ObamaMalik                 

How do
illegal people pay income tax if they have no social security for their
tax form? I am legal. I have social security. I pay tax

@ashwinmushran

Pay Service
Tax! Then told there is now a Service Tax half yearly return! Then
pay accountant to file that you’ve paid service Tax! Repeat

@aquasaurabh

After Income
Declaration Scheme to tackle black money the Govt has Patriotism Declaration Scheme
fr just 5 cr #ADHMReleaseDrama @karanjohar

@mkvenu1

“Sin
tax” under GST regime is being lowered drastically to enable the “sinners”
to generate more cash. They help fund elections, after all.

@JamuntinI

God may even
forgive your Sins, taxation dept., wouldn’t. Sin tax @ 40% for your
Smoke…probably. #GST Update.

@rameshsrivats  

Now that a
real estate tycoon is winning the US elections, Congress must be seriously
looking at Robert Vadra.

@rameshsrivats  

Watching
NDTV. The Congress spokesperson is putting full nonsense. He should be treated
like a 1,000 rupee note, & discontinued immediately.

And here is
the list of a few bollywood actors’ twitter
handles that you may want to follow:

Madhuri
Dixit Nene – @madhuridixit

Shah Rukh
Khan – @iamsrk

Alia Bhat –
@aliaa08

Dilip Kumar
– @TheDilipKumar

Deepika
Padukone – @deepikapaduokne

Priyanka
Chopra – @priyankachopra

Karan Johar
– @karanjohar

Aamir Khan –
@aamir_khan

Anil Kapoor
– @AnilKapoor

Anupam Kher
– @AnupamPKher

Rishi
Kapoor – @chintskap _

Twitter Fun of the Month

This month, one of the most talked about topics on twitter
was the advertisement of a pan masala brand where one of the actors who played
the role of James  Bond in the past
featured. This set the twitterati abuzz. Here are some of the tweets that we
found worth sharing with our readers.

@KyaukhaadLega –
Bond is now famous Pan-india

@rameshsrivats ­

Pierce Brosnan.

Played James Bond.

Endorses Pan Bahar.

Licensed to kill.

@NSDahiya  – Pierce Brosnan has got supari to kill now.

@ajith27  – Pierce Brosnan says the outrage has given
him much to chew on, Paan unintended

@Vineet_Nag  -I used to think #money is not everything but
then i saw #PierceBrosnan doing an ad film for Pan Parag paan masala !!

@navalmalpani   – We know india is getting ahead in class
when SrK endorses tag heur, and Pierce Brosnan endorses Gutkha . #PanBahar #PierceBrosnan

@Burman_amit   – Pierce Brosnan: “Wy wvem ih von, aemz
von” me:”What??” Pierce Brosnan:Spits Pan Bahar “my name is
Bond, james  Bond” #PanBahar #Pierce- Brosnan

And after the concerned actor feigned ignorance about the
true nature of the product that he had endorsed, the world of twitter had yet
another bout of laughter:

@jujvijay  – Pierce Brosnan says he didn’t know what he
was selling. Guess things didn’t *’paan’*
out as expected #paanbahar #piercebrosnan #Punintended

@iamranjandhar –
Pierce Brosnan: ek Pan Bahar dena. Paan Wala: yeh lo. *Pierce Brosnan Gives 5 Rs*
Paan­ wala: Sahab 7.50 Rs. Ka hai. PB: dhai another day!

@news24tvchannel
– James breaks Bond with Paan Ba­ har: Pierce Brosnan accuses company of trappi
#Pierce- Brosnan #PaanBahar #Contract #ad

@askThePankazzzz
– Honestly, deeply hurt to know that Pierce Brosnan doesn’t actually eat Paan
Bahar. tired of these people breaking my trust again & again.

@ind_mnk – A
friend looking for job was not getting one, Pierce Brosnan (Bond 007) in indian
Paan Bahar ad only shows it’s a worldwide recession.!!

And here are some tweets where people are talking about the
controversial US elections where Mr. donald trump and Ms. Hillary Clinton are
engaged in an ugly battle.

@Elizasoul80 – I
wouldn’t vote for a woman just because i’m a woman, just like people shouldn’t
vote for trump just because they’re idiots.

@PetrickSara –
Someone said my kid would probably grow up to be president, and i’m not sure if
it was meant as a compliment or an insult.

@WilliamAder – Remember
when we thought “any kid can grow up to be President” was a good thing?

@ericsshadow – I
hear all these trump supporters say­ ing they support him because he speaks his
mind. Well you know who else speaks his mind? My 4 year old.

@marlebean – They
say ignorance is bliss, but trump supporters don’t seem very happy.

On another note, here are a few that are probably from tired
young mothers:

@mommyshorts – Asked
to switch seats on the plane because i was sitting next to a crying baby. Apparently,
that’s not allowed if the baby is yours.

@LurkatHomeMom  – Hell 
hath no fury like a 4 year old whose sandwich has been cut into squares
when he wanted triangles.

@cheeseboy22 –
Kids everywhere are fighting global warming by leaving doors open and air
conditioning the outside.

And none of our compilations can be complete without quoting
the irrepressible Ramesh Srivats of Bangalore:

@rameshsrivats  – Board of Control for Cricket in india

– if you remove their Control, they’ll remove our Cricket.
and india will be Board.

And here are this month’s recommendations of twitter handles
that you can follow. This time, we thought of shar­ ing the handles of a few
global accounting networks.

TMF – @tmforumorg

Nexia International –
@Nexia_intnl

PwC LLP – @PwC_LLP

Deloitte – @Deloitte

MGK Consulting – @MGK_Consulting

Mazars – @MazarsGroup

PKF international – @PKFI

Prime Global –
@PrimeGlobalAcct

RSM US LLP – @RSMUSLLP

Baker Tilly International
– @BakerTillyint

Moore Stephens
international – @MooreStephens