<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong> President Arif Alvi was all over Pakistan Twitter recently for his tweets that people struggled to decipher.</p> <p>While a few of his tweets had only some characters from the alphabet, another seemed to be a collection of some randomly typed letters.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">New official presidential language of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NayaPakistan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NayaPakistan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mum_mmu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mum_mmu</a> <a href="https://t.co/vNA0L5J28l">pic.twitter.com/vNA0L5J28l</a></p> — 𝕺𝖜𝖆𝖎𝖘 𝕶𝖍𝖆𝖓🇵🇰 (@OwaisAhmedKha18) <a href="https://twitter.com/OwaisAhmedKha18/status/1424452626033299469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Behind the scene <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mum_mmu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mum_mmu</a> <a href="https://t.co/Z7SOzhAL46">pic.twitter.com/Z7SOzhAL46</a></p> — h-m-m-a-d (@iamhmmad1) <a href="https://twitter.com/iamhmmad1/status/1424603101236011012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">PAKISTAN FINALLY HAS ITS COVFEFE MOMENT. OUR PRESIDENT: <a href="https://t.co/61f6wVBCu9">pic.twitter.com/61f6wVBCu9</a></p> — ıɐzlɐdod ɹɐʎɹəɥɐɥs (@spopalzai) <a href="https://twitter.com/spopalzai/status/1424352990236921861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>The tweets were soon removed from his timeline, but not before Pakistani Twitter had exploded with memes and posts mocking the president. The typos also reminded people of former US President Donald Trump's famous “covfefe” gaffe from 2017, which went on to become a rage across the world.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Amul?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Amul</a> Topical : President Trump’s difficulty with words on Twitter! <a href="https://t.co/y8b8ydW1Jr">pic.twitter.com/y8b8ydW1Jr</a></p> — Amul.coop (@Amul_Coop) <a href="https://twitter.com/Amul_Coop/status/870639010158227457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2017</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>Taking to Twitter, Adil Ansari, consultant to President Alvi, shared: "...he (Alvi) was out for his activity time & phone must've remained opened in pocket & thus the tweets."</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">President <a href="https://twitter.com/ArifAlvi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArifAlvi</a> is an active Twitter user & keeps himself aware of news events, chattering on certain topics etc from this very platform.<br /><br />As a sports lover, he was out for his activity time & phone must've remained opened in pocket & thus the tweets.<br /><br />Tweets are now DELETED.</p> — Adil Ansari (@AnsariAdil) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnsariAdil/status/1424354733293285376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>The Twitterati, however, continued to take a dig at the president.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">covfefe just set the bar too damn high! Unfortunately our President's version just doesn't have the same zing and therefore not as meme worthy 😳🥲</p> — toldja cat 🦋 (@manahylk) <a href="https://twitter.com/manahylk/status/1424401451619598336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">They deleted the tweets 😭 <a href="https://ift.tt/3fQKaWi> <a href="https://t.co/V0sFhFosHT">pic.twitter.com/V0sFhFosHT</a></p> — ıɐzlɐdod ɹɐʎɹəɥɐɥs (@spopalzai) <a href="https://twitter.com/spopalzai/status/1424358601636913155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>Even Dr Awab Alvi, Alvi’s son, could not resist a post on the tweets as he noted how the “gibberish pocket tweeting” triggered a "National Twitter crisis”.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">A National Twitter Crisis due to gibberish pocket tweeting 😂</p> — Awab Alvi (@DrAwab) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrAwab/status/1424349021678805002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>Pakistani Twitter saw #mum_mmu trend for long.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Pictures of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mum_mmu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mum_mmu</a> gang... <a href="https://t.co/9xhbVakBC9">pic.twitter.com/9xhbVakBC9</a></p> — Jawad Haider.PMLN (Wear a Mask to Stay Safe) (@jawadhaider007) <a href="https://twitter.com/jawadhaider007/status/1424557045936754691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hello dear <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mum_mmu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mum_mmu</a></p> — SK (@sajadkhan0) <a href="https://twitter.com/sajadkhan0/status/1424591732553957380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">I think <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mum_mmu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mum_mmu</a> is a code word for PTI aunties.</p> — Muhandis (@TheMuhandiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMuhandiss/status/1424599994506620929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="und"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mum_mmu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mum_mmu</a> <a href="https://t.co/ru2OBrZksJ">pic.twitter.com/ru2OBrZksJ</a></p> — Khurram Qureshi (@qureshik74) <a href="https://twitter.com/qureshik74/status/1424599119692189700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <h2>Not the first time</h2> <p>President Alvi is quite prolific on social media and has been in the news before for his posts. He had once tweeted about watching Fifty Shades of Grey. The post was deleted recently.</p> <p>He is also on Facebook, and had even created an official account on TikTok in June, just before Pakistan banned the Chinese app in the country. On his debut on TikTok, 71-year-old Alvi had said he is a “dreamer” who “sees light in everything”.</p> <p>Alvi, a member of the ruling PTI, was elected president of the country in September 2018, soon after the Imran Khan government came to power.</p>
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