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.
