DHAKA: Qaiser Ali, a 19-year-old teenager from Lucknow, after handling "Prime Minister of India" the official twitter for India’s Prime Minister  by mistake for half an hour, shaked the world as ‘Half-an-Hour PM’.

Later, he apologised for taking the handle, of course, reports the Yahoo News on Thursday late night.

The report said that after all Qaiser still doesn't understand how it happened. He just wanted to give his Twitter handle a better name.

He said: "I don't know how but it came into my mind to check PMO [Prime Minister's Office] of India, and when I realised it was available, I saved it for myself."

The @PMOIndia Twitter account, started by Manmohan Singh, had managed to gather more than a million followers. As he left office, his team decided not to simply hand the account over to PM-designate Narendra Modi.

Instead, on Tuesday, Manmohan's team renamed and archived the Twitter handle - @PMOIndia was turned into @PMOIndiaArchive.

By this time Qaiser Ali somehow grabbed the account name at all in the brief window between when the official account name was changed, and the new @PMOIndia handle was created.

Of course, On Thursday, India's PMO, in a statement, said the Twitter account @PMOIndia has been 'secured' by Twitter.

It said: “They are assisting in the handover of the same to this office to be available to the incoming PMO administration along with its followers."

BDST: 0743 HRS, MAY 23, 2014