Ed Balls has acknowledged a meme that originated when he tweeted his own name and nothing else almost two years ago.

The cryptic two-word message has since been spread enthusiastically by other users.

Sorry... But this is getting really weird.. RT @felicitymorse: Ed Balls makes it onto a train sign twitter.com/FelicityMorse/â€¦ — Ed Balls (@edballsmp) April 12, 2013

The shadow chancellor this evening (April 12) retweeted a photo of a London Underground service update board which had "Ed Balls" as its additional information.

"Sorry... But this is getting really weird," he wrote.

Hundreds of Facebook users have also joined an event to mark the two-year anniversary of Balls's original message by retweeting it at 4.20pm on April 28.

Other unusual tweets from politicians include Conservative MP Rob Wilson accidentally sending out a link to a pornographic website.

Gavin Barwell also appeared to make a Twitter gaffe when he complained about a press release featuring an advertisement to "date Arab girls", with the Croydon MP having seemingly misunderstood how Google AdSense works.

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