Fake Account Under Elon Musk's Name Suspended After Tweeting Lyrics Of Bhojpuri Song 'Lollipop Lagelu'
Turns out it was Musk's parody account, that copied the Tesla's CEO account from word to word and the same display picture. Twitter users were confused, here is the whole story.
Elon Musk has been in news for a while now, for acquiring Twitter, firing Twitter employees and for making new changes to the social media platform that were not received well by users.
In an interesting turn of events, Musk is now in the limelight for tweeting in Hindi, rather, to be precise, for tweeting the lyrics of the popular Bhojpuri song 'Lollipop Lagelu.' Turns out it was a parody account that copied the Tesla CEO's account info, word to word, including the profile picture. Twitter users were confused no doubt. But what really went on?
Fake Twitter Profile Under Elon Musk's Name Tweets 'Lollipop Lagelu' Lyrics, Suspended
Dear @elonmusk what's happening in Twitter? What's going on Twitter? There are two @elonmusk on Twitter with similar name, similar profile and similar Bio. Here is first @elonmusk with in English, but another @iawoolford in Hindi and My Bhojpuri language. Please take action. pic.twitter.com/Xi5nHnhVFp
¡ª AMVRISH NAND KUMAR ? (@amvrish_kum2) November 5, 2022
An account that looked like it belonged to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, out of the blue, started tweeting lyrics of the popular Bhojpuri song 'Lollipop Lagelu.' Needless to say, desi Twitter users were left speechless by the tweet. The excitement didn't last long though, and some users were even disappointed because the account did not belong to Musk. It was a parody account.
The account even had the blue tick and mirrored Musk's original account with a similar bio and profile picture. Eventually, the account was proved to be fake.
Account hacked !@elonmusk @iawoolford ?? pic.twitter.com/Xlp29aVNJg
¡ª V!?@??? ? (@itsvish95) November 5, 2022
The account belonged to a professor, now suspended
Who knew @elonmusk also knew ¡°hindi¡±? @iawoolford
¡ª Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (@gchahal) November 5, 2022
cc: @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/hBn802sDai
The parody account is now suspended and reportedly belonged to professor Ian Woolford. He is an American-Australian professor at Melbourne's La Trobe University. The educator leads the Hindi language programme and South Asian culture courses at the university. He is fluent in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit and Persian. Additionally, he can also understand Bhojpuri and Maithili.
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