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Section off Twitter appearances and allusions, more tropes, trope namers, etc.
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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.
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* ''[[The Classic Doctor Who Twitter Blog]]''
* ''[[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.▼
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* [[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.▼
* [[First World Problems]]: The trope name originated from a Twitter hashtag, and the site itself is an excellent platform for short moanings about daily life and our miserable existences by people who are generally well-enough off, so it was of course a match made in heaven.
{{Creatortropes|Tropes found on Twitter and its various viral tweets include:}}
* [[Bait and Switch]]: The subject of many a classic viral tweet.
{{quote|'''@radtoria:''' [https://twitter.com/radtoria/status/524381421217906689 People who are offended when I breastfeed in public need to STFU. What I'm doing is natural and strengthens the bond between me and my dog.]}}
* [[Banned in China]]: Twitter is among the many sites blocked or heavily filtered by China's "Great Firewall".
* [[Beige Prose]]: While many a user tends towards multi-tweet threads on multiple subjects, it's still impressive how much you can say within 280 characters.
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: According to [https://tosdr.org/#twitter the ''Terms of Service; Didn't Read'' website], Twitter "ignores the Do Not Track (DNT) header and tracks users anyway even if they set this header".
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** Played straighter by some younger media -- for example, read the hilariously hypocritical message board rants against it. Boo, any interpersonal e-communication that isn't e-mail... wait...
* [[Please Select New City Name|Please Select New City Hashtag]]: Sometimes hashtags collide. For instance, #btv had been used primarily for discussions pertaining to Burlington, Vermont (from the city's airport code), until a massive influx of Arabic-language posts in early 2011 referring to Bahrain Television, after which the Burlington folks switched to #bvt.
* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]:
** Though not to the extent of [[Facebook|<s>Facebook</s> Meta]], you'll find a lot of older users can be surprisingly foul-mouthed and vicious.
** In terms of gimmick accounts, there's [http://www.twitter.com/shitmydadsays "Shit My Dad Says"], a feed started in August 2009 by then-employed comedy writer [[Justin Halpern]] consisting of quotes from his father Sam that took off enough to earn mentions by ''[[The Daily Show]]'' and actress ''[[Kristen Bell]]'', and eventually led to [[Sh*t My Dad Says|a book deal]] and even a [[$h*! My Dad Says|television series]].
* [[Small Reference Pools]]:
** [[The BBC]] in particular is ''obsessed to an indescribable degree'' with Twitter. Any news that can possibly be related to anything to do with technology or society in general, never mind the Internet, is determinedly dragged around by its news interviewers to the subject of Twitter, often leading to the more net-savvy interviewees becoming bewildered.
** [[CNN]] had a Twitter problem to the point that the ''[[The Daily Show]]'' had taken to mocking them for it.
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{{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.
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{{quote|'''OP''': It seems like Twitter-style hashtags have replaced HTML-style coding as Internet shorthand for meta-commentary.
'''Reply''': </era> }}
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: [[Adult Swim]]'s official Twitter announcement for the return of Toonami (itself the result of a successful Twitter campaign) was #ToonamisBackBitches.
* [[Verbal Tic]]:
** [https://twitter.com/BBCBweaking The "Bweaking NuwuS" account] is essentially a mirror of [https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking the automated Twitter account] run by [[The BBC]], but filtered through [[Furry Fandom]]-style "uwu speak" to add comedic effect.
* [[Vox Pops]]: Twitter is a natural source of these.
=Appearances in Other Media=
{{Featuredin|Appearances of Twitter and allusions to the site occur in the following media:}}
==[[Fan Works]]==
* ''[[Dragon Ball Z Abridged]]'': When Dodoria reveals to Vegeta that [[Big Bad|Frieza]] was the one who [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroyed Planet Vegeta]] and killed off [[Genocide Backfire|''most'' of the Saiyans]], it doesn't have the impact Dodoria wanted it to - turns out posting "lol blewed up filthy monkey planet" on [[Recycled IN SPACE!|SpaceTwitter]] doesn't leave a lot of room for questions.
{{quote|'''Vegeta''': Really should have told Frieza to keep off the Twitter.}}
==[[Video Games]]==
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]'' has [[Bland-Name Product]] Bleeter.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* ''[[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.
▲* [[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.
==[[Web Original]]==
▲* 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.
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