Key Sentence:
- Twitter loves Mark Hamill so much that you’d even love him if he tweeted “Mark Hamill.”
- That’s right, just the name “Mark Hamill.”
The Star Wars actor took to Twitter on Sunday to see if he could get universal approval marks on social media just by writing his name. “You can simply tweet ‘Mark Hamill’ and get thousands of likes,” wrote one Twitter user. The pregnant fixed the requested message, only adding her name as instructed.
There were 2.1K like within two minutes, and “Mark Hamill” became a hot topic on Twitter. The tweet had 7,016 retweets and 148.3K likes (and the numbers are growing).
It was an impressive display of the internet power of the actor who played the legendary Jedi master Luke Skywalker. “The power is in him,” one commenter wrote on Twitter.
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Star Trek actor George Takei tweeted, “Mark Hamill. Now we are waiting.” Takei didn’t have to wait long for thousands of people to like his tweets. Mark Hamill knows how to make Twitter crazy: Write Mark Hamill.
Wire actor Lance Reddick added his own “Mark Hamill” on Twitter before adding, referring to the statement, “Okay, I want to be like (Mark Hamill).”
And so on.
Twitter user @LozzaBean12, who set off a social media storm, quoted “moderator” Ron Burgundy in his post-Twitter analysis: “Wow, this is rising fast.”