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You can follow [https://twitter.com/ATTropes All The Tropes on Twitter], or browse [[All The Tropes]] Twitter-style in the [[Laconic]] namespace.
{{Featuredin|Appearances of Twitter
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': One of the many glimpses of [[World Limited to the Plot|the world outside of the main characters' lives]] includes glimpses of a website called "Serious Business", clearly intended to be Twitter in all but name.
* For [[April Fools' Day]] 2010, the [[TYPE-MOON]] website added hilarious and very in-character [[Bland-Name Product|TMitter]] feeds from their most popular characters to the site, which was retained for April Fools' events in the following years.
* [[Scott Kurtz]]'s ''[[PvP (webcomic)|PvP]]'' webcomic has Captain Amazing, an older character of his that made an early appearance and earned a spinoff, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717215205/http://www.pvponline.com/2010/03/05/tweet-titan/ reluctantly adopt] a sidekick named ReTweet.
{{Creatortropes|Tropes found on Twitter and its various viral tweets include:}}
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** [[Twitter]] users riff on this often, with one particular refrain for this trope stemming from [https://twitter.com/afraidofwasps/status/1177301482464526337 this viral tweet] by user @afraidofwasps.
{{quote|'''Guy who has only seen [[The Boss Baby]], watching his second movie:''' Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this...}}
* [[Streisand Effect]]: Countless examples, to the point that the informal term used for such occurrences is "main character" (coined by [https://twitter.com/maplecocaine/status/1080665226410889217 maplecocaine]) - per that tweet, the "goal" of using Twitter is to never double down on something so hard that you become the userbase's main spectacle for the day.
** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20180122055006/http://blog.dilbert.com/2016/10/18/is-twitter-shadowbanning-me/ alleged shadowban]<ref>making posts invisible in many contexts</ref> of [[Dilbert]] creator [[Scott Adams]] - while this didn't do much to harm his image (at least [[Small Name, Big Ego|not much more harm]] [[Fallen Creator|than he would eventually do himself]]), it contributed to Twitter censorship becoming widely infamous, which ultimately didn't help its reputation and stocks.
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* [[Strongly Worded Letter]]: The strong presence of politicians, corporations and other high-profile figures on Twitter naturally lends itself to vitriol directed at them by various other users - including examples of this trope all across its spectrum. The most benign instances may be from misguided strangers who at best don't recognize that some folks aren't easily cowed by aggressive tweets; meanwhile, the worse examples tend to come from people severely overestimating their social media influence and/or the capability to enact change through social media, both of which are already subject to less-than-accurate portrayals.
** [[And Then What?]]: One of the bigger elephants in the room with regards to this trope is the lack of planning around what should be done once you have enough attention on your desired cause, with no conception beyond some vague "awareness". Luke McKinney touches on some parts of this phenomenon in his [[Cracked.com]] article, [https://www.cracked.com/article_18614_6-objective-reasons-us-army-should-invade-bp.html "6 Objective Reasons The US Army Should Invade BP".]
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