LONDON -- Extending an offer to the Twittersphere -- even the rhetorical, angry, throwaway kind -- can be a risky business.

There's always the chance people might take you up it.

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Over the weekend, Twitter user @AnishUKIP posted two (now deleted) tweets about Christmas.

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"I know this is early, Merry Christmas to all," he wrote. "We are a western Christian country. If this country loses its identity the rest is meaningless."

Then, he tweeted this:

It wasn't long before people started taking him up on the offer.

So many people.

Days later and the requests were still flooding in.

A roundup of the whole exchange was posted by comedian Bethany Black on Sunday. It's since been shared by J.K. Rowling and retweeted around 24,000 times.

@AnishUKIP's Twitter account, meanwhile, has now been set to private. Presumably his original offer has been rescinded.


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