On Saturday afternoon, one of the highly prestigious National Stock Exchange's official Twitter handle made a huge blunder, leaving the followers of the economy and market shocked. Twitterati and financial planners were in a state of shock seeing sensuous pictures of Mouni Roy's pictures on National Stock Exchange (NSE)'s Twitter handle! Yes, this happened!
NSE India shared pictures of Mouni Roy from Twitter handle...Mic drop moment.
On Saturday afternoon NSE's Twitter handle tweeted, "Soaring Saturday temperature high... @RoyMouni looks breathtaking", accompanied by a series of questionable hashtags like- 'beautifuldiva,' 'sexydiva' and 'hotgirl'.
By then the blunder was all out on social media and NSE immediately rectified the error and issued a clarification.
Shortly after deleting the post, NSE issued apology
The NSE post garnered unprecedented engagements after followers saw Mouni Roy's pics on NSE's official handle. Withing few hours, NSE deleted the post and immediately issued an apology. By then, social media users noticed NSE India's online indulgence and took screenshots and shared the post on their personal handles.
NSE clarifies that the account wasn't hacked
Issuing an official statement on the blunder, the National Stock Exchange clarified that the post resulted from a 'human error' adding that the NSE account had not been hacked.
"Today there was an unwanted post on NSE handle at 12:25 p.m. It was a human error made by the agency handling NSE account, and there was no hacking. Our sincere apologies to our followers for the inconvenience caused (sic)," read NSE's post.
Netizens started blaming NSE social media manager
Social media users were more than forgiving after NSE India's blunder. Sharing memes on the incident, some called it a 'perfect error', while others schooled them to be careful before 'switching accounts'.
NSE's threads are raining memes tonight!
Here are a few classic ones:
The person handling NSE Twitter a/c must have taken 2 pegs of extra alcohol on this Saturday ?
— Jyotirmoy Parhi (@JyotirmoyParhi) January 9, 2021
No no. No need to apologise. It was a good post. We enjoyed it actually...
— Atul Kulkarni - अतुल कुलकर्णी (@iAtulB) January 9, 2021
Appreciate the speed at which realising the mistake... (Post happened at 12.25 pm) mistake realised 18.00 hrs ??
— Equiideas (@Equiideas09) January 9, 2021
india's largest stock exchange twitter handle and a film actress handle managed by same agency.. wahh wahh.
— nifty trader (@niftytrader20) January 9, 2021
Looking for a new agency?
— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) January 9, 2021
NSE, what is this behavior? The hashtags are.... Speechless. https://t.co/zhHQSkk1nj
— Sandesh Samant | संदेश सामंत (@sandesh_samant) January 9, 2021
Some poor social media manager forgot to switch the account. Lol. From official account of NSE India . #Mouniroy #NSE #NSEindia #bullrun #Bollywood pic.twitter.com/0eVJLdTpaa
— The Braveheart (@TBraveheart) January 9, 2021
— Meeth Desai (@DesaiMeeth) January 9, 2021