'Can't Refund Education'! The Tweet That Led To Hashtag 'BoycottSwiggy' Trending On Twitter
As one would expect, Swiggy's reply to Nirmala Sitharaman's parody account did not sit well with trolls, who took the road most travelled and decided to trend #BoycottSwiggy on Twitter.
Food delivery app Swiggy has recently found itself in the midst of a controversy on Twitter after its statement on the farmers protests. Swiggy had actually responded to a tweet by the parody account of Nirmala Sitharaman.
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The parody account had tweeted, 'Had an argument with my Bhakt friend over a farmers protest. He said that we are not dependent on farmers for food. We can always order food from Swiggy. He won'. To which, Swiggy replied, "sorry, we can¡¯t refund education", indicating those who believe farmers don't contribute to food are not educated.
Had an argument with my Bhakt friend over farmers protest.
¡ª Nimo Tai 2.0 (@Cryptic_Miind) November 30, 2020
He said that we are not dependent on farmers for food. We can always order food from Swiggy.
He won.
sorry, we can't refund education ???¡â?
¡ª Swiggy (@swiggy_in) November 30, 2020
The viral tweet by the food delivery app then led to a bitter crossfire between Twitter users from different sides of the political spectrum.
While some users commended Swiggy for its tweet, others termed the tweet derogatory and threatened to boycott the food delivery app. Some also advised the companies should stay away from such controversies.
Uninstalled Swiggy and requested 10 more people to do the same. Each one of them will request ten people known to them.#StopFundingHate #boycottswiggy
¡ª Avishek (@avysheik) December 1, 2020
Sorry. You don't seem to have any education that you can return. Just like I won't be having swiggy app anymore to make an order. #boycottswiggy #deleteswiggy
¡ª Gaurav Mishra (@gmishra88) December 1, 2020
Zomato and swiggy gives so many employment to Delivery guys , local restaurants .
¡ª Sumit (@sumitsaurabh) November 30, 2020
I don¡¯t understand, why they have to put their legs in controversies !
These companies must be very careful while tweeting . One idiot tweet impacts so many tips to the delivery guys .
#Boycottzomato : Done!#BoycottUberEats : Done! #BoycottSwiggy : Planning
¡ª Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) November 30, 2020
What next?#BoycottFood ? pic.twitter.com/QPs2BrxV7d
Bhakt's boycotted Zomato first, then Tanishq Jewelers, Netflix and ??now Swiggy.!!
¡ª Binoy Xavier (@binoyb4u) December 1, 2020
By the way things are going, it seems Nirvana is not far!#boycottswiggy
Along with Swiggy, its rival platform Zomato also started trending by Tuesday morning, with many users claiming those boycotting will now be left with no option since they boycotted Zomato a month earlier.
Bhakts want to boycott Swiggy but they will have no option because they boycotted Zomato earlier
¡ª Dhruv Rathee ?? (@dhruv_rathee) November 30, 2020
Best strategy for competitor companies is to offend Bhakts together, you¡¯ll get free publicity and they¡¯ll be unable to boycott everything ? https://t.co/Alv6fs1oxy
Earlier this month, Zomato had also courted controversy after it responded to actor Swara Bhaskar's demand to stop advertisements to a Hindi channel that she accused of indulging in biased news coverage. "Hi Swara, please note, we don't endorse any content except our own. That being said, we are looking into this," Zomato had responded.
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