Prime Minister of India for half an hour
Twitter鈥檚 new Prime Minister of India; naming and shaming online abuse towards maids in Brazil; how Greg got his holiday
Qaiser Ali says he just wanted to get a better name for his twitter account. But by grabbing the official 鈥淧rime Minister of India鈥 twitter handle, he inadvertently stepped in a huge social media spat between India鈥檚 soon to be Prime Minister and the new one. But how could the handle be available to start with? We find out how the digital handover between India鈥檚 new and past Prime Ministers didn鈥檛 quite go to plan.
Also in the programme, the new account in Brazil which names and shames people who post offensive comments online about their maids. We speak to the anonymous man behind the twitter account and find out why the abuse is so widespread.
And the security guard who not only became a trending topic overnight with #givegregtheholiday, but more importantly for him, actually got a holiday from it.
Mukul Devichand is joined in the studio by Bruno Garcez from 大象传媒 Brasil, Vikas Pandey of 大象传媒 Hindi and India Rakusen from the Trending team.
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