‘Our president..Barraco Barner’ – British girl’s tweet sparks worldwide Twitter ridicule

When 20 year old British beautician Gemma
Worrall (pictured above) realised relations between
Russia and Ukraine were at crisis point, she
decided to share her feelings on Twitter and
without pausing to check her facts, or her spelling,
Gemma wrote: ‘If barraco barner is our president,
why is he getting involved with Russia, scary.’ Lol.

Within hours, Gemma was trending in countries
around the world as her message was retweeted
over 6,000 times.

By the time she had realised her mistakes, and
deleted the tweet, it had already been
screengrabbed and shown on television
programmes in Australia and Belgium, among
others. Continue…

The hashtag #barracobarner was trending around
the world, and new spoof accounts
@BarracoBarner (UK prez, chilling at Number 10)
and Michelleo Barner (First Lady of the United
States of Britain) were set up.

Meanwhile the beautician, who works in a salon in
Blackpool, was being invited onto TV and radio
chat shows and having to fend off unkind
comments calling her ‘stupid’, ‘spaz’ and ‘dumb’
on the social media site that made her name.

The youngster tried to correct the situation, writing
a tweet saying : ‘Right, I get it, I’m no good with
politics I’ll just shh now’.

And she pleaded with people to stop retweeting her
original message, adding: ‘CAN’T BREATHE, wtf is
going on, phone’s blowing up – retweets.’
She eventually signed off: ‘Feel tight on my nan.
She’s going to have a heart attack when she sees
me in the paper.’

Today she described the reaction to her tweet as
‘unbelievable’, and said she had received bullying
threats from around the world.

Source: UK Daily Mail