How Twitter reacted to Google's Alphabet, Pichai's appointment

As the internet titan unveiled the new corporate structure, netizens took to social networking sites to post their reactions.

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India-born Sundar Pichai has been named CEO of Google as part of a surprise corporate overhaul that saw the search giant forming a new parent company called Alphabet Inc.

Google chief executive Larry Page announced the change on Monday, saying he will hold the same title at Alphabet. Co-founder Sergey Brin will be the president at Alphabet, the new holding company for the tech giant's newer ventures such as research arm X Lab, investment unit Google Ventures and health and science operations.

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Sundar Pichai is spicy rasam in Google's fuzzy Alphabet soup

As the internet titan unveiled the new corporate structure, netizens took to social networking sites to post their reactions.

With #Alphabet topping the trends, here are some of the quirkiest reactions on Twitter :

While we slept, seems #Sunder cooked quite an #Alphabet soup :)

— PK (@PKGulati) August 11, 2015

The Sundar Pichais and Satya Nadellas just making life tougher for South Asian kids. #Alphabet#DesiParentsBeLike

— Smriti Sinha (@SmritiSinhas) August 11, 2015

Did @google change its name to #Alphabet so it would come before #Apple in the dictionary?

— Michael Ludden (@mLudden) August 11, 2015

I really hope GMail gets renamed to Alpha Mail #google#alphabet

— Nathan Marz (@nathanmarz) August 11, 2015

Next week: Microsoft rebrands to NUMB3R5 to be one of the cool kids #Alphabet

— Holly Brockwell (@holly) August 10, 2015

My Twitter handle is now for sale. The bidding will start at $5 million. #Alphabet

— LeanderAlphabet (@LeanderAlphabet) August 10, 2015

What is the capital of Montana? Give me a sec, I'll just #ALPHABET that

— Jon Phillips (@JonPhillipsSF) August 10, 2015

#Alphabet ala #GameofThrones#Google is dividing its empire into territories. By naming its most worthy servants as wardens of kingdoms:))

— rajesh varma (@rajeshvarma1801) August 11, 2015

Today's most #Googled word #alphabet?

— Anuj Bhatnagar (@em_anuj) August 11, 2015

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