Still Disappointed after a Double Hundred

Friday, 26 February 2010 15:40

Written by Anshul, onion uttapam news

On Wednesday night when Sachin Tendulkar scored 200 runs at Gwalior against the South Africans, becoming the first man to hit a double hundred in a one day international, all of India celebrated. The celebrations were, of course, not for India's victory in the match, but for the reigning god of cricket establishing the unique record of being the only scorer of a double ton in one-dayers. While millions went wild with paroxysmal delight celebrating his achievement and treating it as a sort of personal accomplishment, there was one Indian who was sorely disappointed.

Meet Saurabh Singh or coolguy84 as he is more popularly known on social networking sites. The moment Sachin Tendulkar scored his double century, coolguy84 set out to create his own world record. He logged into his twitter account and started tweeting about Tendulkar and his double ton. Within just 147 minutes after logging in to twitter he had managed to tweet 200 tweets on Sachin Tendulkar, making him the fastest tweeter of 200 tweets, breaking the earlier record of sidorkanwar who had tweeted 200 tweets in 150 minutes. While tweeting, he added all search hashtags like #sachin #sachintendulkar #sachinisgod #sachinrameshtendulkar in his tweets, to make his tweets visible for anyone searching for tweets on Tendulkar’s feat.

But to his dismay, his 200 tweets were overlooked by one and all. No one retweeted them. No one even replied to them. Everyone was so busy tweeting their own thoughts on Tendulkar's two hundred that no one cared to read what others were tweeting. Bigger disappointment was in store for him when he began channel-surfing the idiot box. None of the news channel featured a single of his 200 tweets, when after running out of adjectives to praise Sachin, they begin highlighting tweets on Sachin's performance. NDTV, CNN-IBN, Times NOW and several other news channels who in a state of frenzied excitement were airing congratulatory messages of tweeters, totally ignored his tweets leaving him disappointed.

coolguy84 has been tweeting since past 3 years and according to him he is the only twitterite in India in last 3 years who has twitted on anything and everything that has made news. Out of 24 hours in the day he tweets nearly for 20 hours and sleeps for the remaining four hours. His dreams usually consist of his tweets getting retweeted at least 100 times. Tweeting on each and every news topic, kicking off his days with a tweet and signing off his nights also with a tweet, he tweets about almost every activity he does including his bi-hourly incursions to the loo. The stink of his farts too gets disseminated on the world wide web. "My last fart was a killer. It smelt like sulphur. I wish Bal Thackeray was near me" he had tweeted to his followers from his hospital bed while down with food poisoning.

A celebrity of the twitterland with over 20,000 followers and 2,00,000 tweets to his credit, coolguy84 feels terribly hurt that the real world has so far ignored his talent. His fans on facebook have started a cause 'Coolguy84 is a real cool guy on the internets. We want his coolness in real world too" and have sent at least 2000 invitations to India's top 200 celebrities including the irritating anchors you see on television news channels every night, hoping they would recognize his achievements on the Internet and let him have his 15 minutes of fame on television and newspapers too.

Although a tad disillusioned, coolguy84 isn't disheartened, “I will keep on tweeting, come what may. I plan to tweet about every congratulatory message that I'll bombarded with during my wedding ceremony. That will be a record which no one will miss..or break.” said an emotionally-charged coolguy84. "Its the love from all of my followers on twitter that keeps me going. Their recognition matters to me more then recognition of my efforts by the movers and shakers of the real world." he added attempting unsuccessfully to shrug off his disappointment.

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