You’ve probably received a WhatsApp forward about how a new Indian name has joined the firmament of stars that rule the tech world. Satya Nadella is the CEO of Microsoft while Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google, IBM CEO is Arvind Krishna and CEO of Adobe Systems is Shantanu Narayen. Now another Indian is in the news – Parag Agrawal replaces Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO. There was a lot of celebration and also some trolling – on Twitter obviously:
Parag Agrawal tweeted this to make the big announcement and to say a little bit about this Twitter journey.
Indians are doing well – abroad at any rate.
Agrawal passed out of IIT Bombay so these guys are especially proud.
Because why not.
This is Silicon Valley
Indians everywhere are celebrating.
Being CEO of Twitter is a difficult job – that difficult job now falls to Agrawal.
Will there be a changes on Twitter? What will that look like?
Some decided to dig up Agrawal’s old tweets.
Nothing dies on the internet – it lives forever in some or another form.
A few friendly tweets addressed to Indian singer Shreya Ghoshal were dug up for unknown reasons.
Why? Because why not
Shreya Ghoshal had to put out this tweet. Really? Noone had anything better to do than to conjecture about a few old tweets between two people minding their own business?
Leave them alone already! How vella are people.
This old tweet of Agrawal from 2010 attracted a lot of attention and censure. However it was clarified that the words weren't his own; he was quoting Aasif Mandvi in that tweet.
Will Kangana Ranaut be back on Twitter now that an Indian is in charge asks comic Saloni Gaur in this video.
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