The tweet was swiftly deleted including a scam link.

Modi's office tweeted that Modi’s account was “very briefly compromised” and Twitter restored it immediately. The office requested people to “ignore the tweet.”

Social media however, did the opposite.

Indian Twitter was flooded with memes mocking the PM.

“Only legends know it was a paid promotion by PM Modi,” said one Twitter user.

According to Indian publication Business Standard, Twitter spokesperson said, “We have 24X7 open lines of communication with the PM’s Office and our teams took necessary steps to secure the compromised account as soon as we became aware of this activity. Our investigation has revealed that there are no signs of any other impacted accounts at this time.”

Twitter’s investigation into the hack has revealed that the account was not compromised due to any breach of Twitter’s systems.