There was a break from the high seriousness on the White House Twitter feed on Wednesday as a follower of Rickolled was. Photo: Ron Edmonds/APTwitter and the White House may come as a dry combination, but also with the debt ceiling dangerously close to crushing everyone under him, the leader of the free world - or at least the people responsible for the White House Twitter-feed - the time found to have a bit of fun on Wednesday.
How? By Rickrolling from 2.3 million Twitter users, that their feed to follow and complained that it is not very interesting.
"Sorry to hear." Fiscal policy is important, but sometimes dry can be. Here of some more fun, "tweeted the White House." And then it... at Rick Astley gonna give singing a link never you up.
A David Wiggs, to themselves as "Energy tech enthusiast and mediocre golfer" whose Tweet - "briefings WH [White House] correspondence not almost as entertaining as of yesterday" - triggered outbreak of fun of Pennsylvania Avenue, liked it: "Hilarious", he tweeted, and "Love!"
"Rickrolling" is a prank, which began on the 4chan message board (originally as Duckrolling as the link would lead to an image of a duck on wheels); the first use of the Astley video link was under the guise of being a secret trailer for the then-unreleased video game Grand Theft Auto IV.
It then spread from 4chan and moved with Twitter in 2008, as a very large number of people the service connected: the necessity of links for the 140-character service shortened you meant to cover up their goal - and to keep out a tempting treat that instead turned out to be Rick Astley to sing could.
In the year 2010 was it poured over just when the video has been removed from YouTube-, but the White House found time, a different trench.
In the meantime ceiling crawled the deadline for the debt closer on Wednesday night - what a dramatic intervention.
(Updated to clarify the history of Rickrolling.)
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