Quick Take
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Everyone's talking about Mary Kom who is about to bring India a fourth Olympic medal this year. That includes the Twitter-happy Amitabh Bachchan and Shahid Kapoor who neglected to do a Google search and spell check respectively before putting their thoughts on the micro-blogging site.
Amitabh Bachchan, who’s been tweeting and blogging extensively about the London Games, started today with this tweet:
T 828 - Mary Kom !! wins her boxing bout, insured a Bronze ! What a story ! A Mother of two from Assam, creates moment of pride for India !!
That was a Big oops moment. 29 year old Magnificent Mary, as Ms Kom is popularly called, is indeed a mother of two but she’s from Manipur and not Assam.
Mr Bachchan corrected himself an hour later:
T 828 - Sorry correction : Mary Kom is from Manipur, not Assam .. apologies !!
And how about Shahid Kapoor, yesterday’s hot Twitter trend for misspelling Mary Kom’s name in a tweet:
Shahid Kapoor @shahidkapoor
Bust them up marycom ............ U r indias million dollar baby .......
A mistake that was quite rudely pointed out to him by a number of followers, and made him the butt of a spate of online jokes.
Unfazed, he corrected himself. And then tweeted, after Mary Kom roundly defeated her quarterfinal opponent, Tunisia’s Maroua Rahali:
Shahid Kapoor @shahidkapoor
Mari kom wins :) ..... That's being the point guys not the typos .... #goteamindia
Except, he didn’t get it right this time either. Mary, Shahid. Not Mari.
And Mary Kom will at least have an Olympic medal to make up for having her name misspelled by a celebrity, but poor Vijender Singh won’t. The boxer, who lost his bid for a bronze this morning, also suffered from a celebrity alphabet swap:
T 828 - Well fought Vijendra ! You have done the country and all of us proud ..
Yes, Mr bachchan did correct himself. Again.
T 828 - Correction : VIJENDER and not vijendra
Amitabh Bachchan, who's been tweeting and blogging extensively about the London Games, started today with this tweet:
That was a Big oops moment. 29-year-old Magnificent Mary, as Ms Kom is popularly called, is indeed a mother of two but she's from Manipur and not Assam.
Mr Bachchan corrected himself an hour later:
And how about Shahid Kapoor, yesterday's hot Twitter trend for misspelling Mary Kom's name in this tweet:
Bust them up marycom ............ U r indias million dollar baby .......
-- Shahid Kapoor (@shahidkapoor) August 5, 2012
A mistake that was quite rudely pointed out to him by a number of followers, and made him the butt of a spate of online jokes.
Unfazed, he corrected himself. And then tweeted, after Mary Kom roundly defeated her quarterfinal opponent, Tunisia's Maroua Rahali:
Except, he didn't get it right this time either. Mary, Shahid. Not Mari.
And Mary Kom will at least have an Olympic medal to make up for having her name misspelled by a celebrity, but poor Vijender Singh won't. The boxer, who lost his bid for a bronze this morning, also suffered from a celebrity alphabet swap:
Yes, Mr Bachchan did correct himself. Again.
