When Twitter wrote 2017's obituary in just five words

As the year 2017 draws to an end, people on Twitter are summing up their experiences of the year making brevity the hallmark of their descriptions. Notwithstanding the fact that this has also been the year in which Twitter relaxed its character limit from 140 to 280, twitterati stuck to #2017in 5words. 

Please link your Aadhaar. Please

Link Aadhaar number to bank account, PAN card, mobile – the orders came one after another. And many people could not get over what Aadhaar going mandatory did to them. Twitter also used the opportunity to sum up its GST pain.

The wedding

Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma got married on December 11 secretly in Italy. The frenzy over this marriage, including the details of everything – from the invitation card to Anushka Sharma's bindi – made the rest of the year a lie. P.S: Zaheer Khan and Sagarika Ghatge, too, got married this year.

Bitcoin Regret

High on sadness

That's not exclusive to 2017 though.

There, there

He must be one of us.

The best words of the year

Yes, they came from US President Donald Trump. No, not "covfefe".

Perpetual problem

The meme lover

Memes were everywhere this year. Tagging friends on memes redefined friendship and the world was never the same.

The GoT fan

Nothing else existed for us this year other than Game of Thrones Season 7, no matter how it was. 

Some people opted for more brevity and they started describing the year using just four words. Here are the jewels.

Somebody is very angry

Also read: It's Christmas, and Twitter has a lot to say about it