Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk on Wednesday spoke back to Norway’s international ministry’s put up, in which he highlighted how the social media web page mistakenly categorised most sensible Norwegian diplomats and politicians as hailing from Nigeria. In one phrase, the billionaire apologized for the gaffe and wrote, “Sorry!”
The mix-up used to be identified in a somewhat mocked up tweet via Norway’s international ministry on Tuesday to Twitter make stronger. In the put up, they discussed that the Twitter handles of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and international minister Anniken Huitfeldt have been additionally appearing them as Nigerian govt officers.
“As much as we enjoy our excellent bilateral relations and close alphabetical neighborhood with Nigeria, we would greatly appreciate if you could label us as Norway. PS That also goes for Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Anniken Huitfeldt,” Norway’s international ministry tweeted.
As according to Twitter’s fresh updates following the October takeover via Musk, labels on govt accounts give further context for profiles broadly fascinated about international relations and geopolitics.
Furthermore, those labels come with a small icon of a flag to inform the account’s standing as a central authority account and of a podium for state-affiliated media. However, in recent years mislabelling of accounts has been a topic on Twitter.
On Tuesday when the problem used to be highlighted via Norway’s international ministry, memes flooded the micro-blogging web page, with one person calling the amalgamation of 2 international locations as ‘Norgeria’.
“So, it’s actually been Norwegians all along that keep sending everyone those letters about a dead prince and advance fees,” wrote some other in connection with the fraudulent ‘Nigeria letters’.
The Norwegian PM and the international minister, on the other hand, didn’t unlock any observation in relation to the subject on Twitter.
The mistake, which stayed for hours, stands corrected on the time of scripting this file.