Replies to Bishop's tweet show that most people do not expect the Ministry for the Environment to have anything to do with the country's Omicron response and, as such, saw no issue with the Wordle-themed tweet.
"You're right, that's completely unacceptable. MFE, DOC, Stats and EECA should be absolutely working hard on the Covid plan," one person responded.
"I doubt the person running the social media accounts has anything to do with Covid decisions. It's light-hearted fun," someone else said.
Other people told the National MP to "chill".
"I consider myself to be someone skilled at seeing the miserable side of just about anything, but even for me, complaining about the social media staff taking part in the silly fun game is a bit much," someone else responded.
Wordle is a viral word game that has recently taken the world by storm. Users are given six attempts to guess a five-letter word and can only play once a day. While there are copycat apps popping up on app stores, the original is the Wordle game, created by Josh Wardle.
Wardle created the game for his partner, who enjoys word games, then decided to put it online. The game had 90 players worldwide in November but now has more than two million regular players.
The Ministry for the Environment has since deleted the tweet, saying that it did not align with its social media strategy.
