‘Norway’: Norway asks Twitter to remove Nigeria symbols | World news
Norwegian diplomats on Tuesday asked Twitter to stop portraying politicians and top companies as being from the African country. Elon Musk’s website has labeled the verified Twitter accounts of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt, and his ministry as government officials or Nigerian government agencies.
The foreign ministry teased the massive merger in a tweet saying, “Dear @TwitterSupport, since we enjoy our excellent bilateral relations and close alphabetical community with Nigeria, we would be very grateful if you could that we are in Norway. PS That also goes for prime minister @jonasgahrstore and foreign minister @Ahuitfeldt. “
Twitter placed labels and small flags on some accounts to show solidarity with governments. Recently, the inappropriateness of tweets has also been a problem on the microblogging site.
Internet users quickly caught the error and created memes and jokes to criticize Twitter. Many scoffed at the company’s growing reliance on automation for account verification following nearly 50 percent of Musk’s company employees.
“So it’s really the Norwegians all the time who keep sending those letters to everyone about the dead prince and the advance charges,” one person wrote in reference to “Nigerian letters”.
“Norway?” mused another.
“They must have fired a man who knows how to locate both countries on a map,” wrote one user.
Another commented, ”Good luck getting feedback from support. That office is probably down to an answering machine at this point.
More than four hours after the request of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the error has not been corrected.
