MS Dhoni not so active on Twitter but recently, he liked a tweet for the first time in three years. This has generated some controversy.
MS Dhoni, India’s former world cup winning captain, had joined Twitter in November 2009. In his eight-year tryst with the micro blogging site, Dhoni has 6.8 million followers and has tweeted only 45 times. Till this week, he had liked only two tweets from his account.
Dhoni had liked journalist Rajdeep Saredesai’s tweet for the first time on March 10, 2013. His second like came for a tweet from the BCCI about a Ranji Trophy match between Hyderabad and Services December31-2014.
महेंद्र सिंह धोनी के 9 साल के ट्वीटर लाइफ का तीसरा लाइक इनखबर को जिसमें 2019 वर्ल्ड कप जीतने की न्यूज हैhttps://t.co/zbQ0jgBveY @BCCI @msdhoni
— InKhabar (@Inkhabar) December 13, 2017
As many media outlets covered the story of Dhoni liking the controversial tweet, no one spoke about how or possibly why he did that. But, if anyone with an average IQ clicked on the link of the news article liked by Dhoni, they’d know the truth behind the whole controversy (if there’s any).
Contrary to popular perception (thanks to sensationalism), the article shared by @InKhabar has got nothing to do with any sort of match-fixing relating to the 2019 World Cup. In fact, theirs was just one of the prime examples of click-bait headlines which are aimed at boosting readership on the website.
The article actually talks about how the former captains who have led Team India in the World Cups right after their wedding have ended up lifting the coveted trophy. And, according to @InKhabar, the hypothesis behind India winning the 2019 World Cup is pretty simple – Kohli who recently got married to Anushka Sharma fits the trend and is now believed to follow in the footsteps of Kapil Dev and Dhoni.
While it’s surely an interesting angle, but seriously, we are not going to believe that – do we? So, the next time you see a headline of a news article that seems too good to be true, trust your instincts, because you know better.