The secret to Twitter success is being Mark Hamill and just tweeting “Mark Hamill”
You too can have a viral Twitter account in two easy steps!
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Mark Hamill is no stranger to internet success (or regular success, for that matter), having single-handedly generated a significant amount of buzz for the Disney era of Star Wars earlier this summer when he revealed that he’s had cameo appearances in all of the movies that nobody has ever noticed. (Finally, a reason to watch Star Wars!) Hamill has also gleefully used his Twitter account as a political platform, tossing thermal detonators in the direction of that bad president guy—who will go unnamed—even after the dumb bullshit he does and says stopped being relevant. Really, though, Mark Hamill doesn’t need to do anything to be popular on Twitter. He’s Mark freakin’ Hamill. Luke Skywalker. The Joker. Firelord Ozai. The guy from Wing Commander.
An actor and Mark Hamill fan on Twitter with the username LozzaBean12 actually put a fine point on that today after Hamill retweeted a joke they had made, suggesting that he’s so generally beloved that he could just tweet “Mark Hamill” and “get thousands of likes.” He did it, because Hamill knows a good comedy premise when he sees one and, well, he has since soared past 100,000 likes. That’s a lot.
Now, quote-tweeting the initial challenge kind of spoils the payoff, because Twitter users are incentivized to like the tweet if they know why he just tweeted his name, but he still got 88,000 likes in an hour. So, what’s the lesson here that regular Twitter users can adapt to improve their own followings? Well, the first step would be “be Mark Hamill,” and the second step would be “do anything.” Once you’ve got those in the bag, you’ll be well on your way to Twitter stardom. The downsides are that you will get relatively few retweets compared to the staggering number of likes and that the replies will have a number of snarky jokesters trying to game their own way to Twitter stardom, but they can’t touch you. They’re not Mark Hamill and they didn’t tweet “Mark Hamill.”
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As the rest of the site lost sarcasm to the prevailing earnest wholesomeness of the era, Great Job, Internet monopolized it taking the term “great job” to new levels of sarcastic scorn
Well, that’s pretty darn specific.
Is a deliberate Ed Balls still an Ed Balls?
As a member of the British Commonwealth and sometimes follower of British politics, I understood that reference!
As an American and occasional fan of UK reality competition shows, I also understand that reference.
A true battle of star power vs political power would have Ed Balls tweet “Mark Hamill” and Mark Hamill tweet “Ed Balls”, and see who wins.
Ed Balls
The guy from Wing Commander.If you are going there, why not the “the guy from Corvette Summer”?
Slipstream.
The Guyver.
Good one! The name check, not necessarily the movie….https://pureblather.com/2018/09/15/movie-review-slipstream-uk-1989/
Skips
Jim!
Chief?
Skips!
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back!
MATT DAMON
MATT DAMON.
Dammit!
Janet!
I wonder how any likes Matt Damon would get if he tweeted his own name.
*Spike Lee angrily doesn’t tweet MATT DAMON’s name*
*Spike Lee angrily doesn’t tweet MATT DILLON’s name*FTFY
Ben Affleck would have his buddy’s back, at least.
It’s just some dude from Star Wars. Nostalgia isn’t meaning.
There is no twitter success, secret or otherwise.
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”. Maybe they can remake Wargames but as a parable against social media rather than nuclear war.
Ha! Now there’s a memory. I did think that Matthew Broderick and Dabney Coleman were going to tongue-kiss each other after that declaration.
Denny Crane!
I would have loved to see Kaufman and Malkovich’s fist conversation regarding that scene. The entire pitch, really.
Ah the Steve Holt maneuver.Steve Holt : STEVE HOLT!!
Gene Parmesan!
Dani Rojas!
“AAAAIIIII HE DID IT AGAIN!!”
Anthony Pirtle?
This is certainly something that happened on the Twitter platform
I don’t know why it bothers me that Twitter folk treat Mark Hamill like a clown who will just respond to or like anything they say. He generally seems to respond to or like anything people say, so I guess that’s on him.