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lormayna
33 days ago
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Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad wi...
Going OT: why a parody account of Italian PM is tweeting a video about an airplane accident in India? Really weird
pjc50
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Because Twitter is a very weird and inauthentic place.
gsky
33 days ago
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People always tweet trending stuff for popularity as simple as that
lormayna
33 days ago
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But this seems a "first hand" content, not a retweet.
xeromal
33 days ago
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Could be something as simple as a follower sending the video to the account knowing it will be shared
account42
33 days ago
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It could simply be reposted from another site or downloaded from a tweet and uploaded without attribution.
captn3m0
33 days ago
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The account is run from India.
uncircle
33 days ago
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That raises even more questions.
arandomusername
33 days ago
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It's very common, ever since twitter added monetization. It makes the site a lot more unbearable.
potato3732842
33 days ago
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To be fair, you kinda gotta be on the outside of something to make good humor about it.
thatloststudent
33 days ago
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Not really, this is more of an internet meme [1].
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https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-modi-responds-to-it...
snickerbockers
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Sometimes it's hard to tell the truth about what obviously just happened so all you can bear to do is say something unreasonably optimistic.
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