British politician butt tweets and the responses on Twitter are absolute magic
Another day, another butt tweet posted by a politician.
This time, British Home Secretary Sajid Javid had a mild Twitter mishap, which prompted the Twittersphere to fill in the blanks.
On 9:09 a.m. on Sunday, Javid tweeted a lone letter: "I." How very esoteric.
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Of course, everyone loves a bit of wordplay. So, people decided to fill in the blanks on Javid's behalf.
Could Javid have been tweeting out the start of The Human League's "Don't You Want Me"?
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Or, "I like to move it?"
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Or Whitney Houston's "I wanna dance with somebody."
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This one seems the most likely explanation, though. Javid was probably singing "I'm a little teapot."
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14 minutes later, Javid ended the suspense and explained his mysterious tweet, by turning it into a sentence.
"...pocket tweeted," he wrote.
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Good work, Javid.
Topics Politics
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
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