Dril started his account in September 2008, just two years after Twitter launched, and as the platform grew, so did his impact.He became the face of what’s often referred to as “weird Twitter ...

Twitter has its upsides and downsides. Among the former is the one known as @dril, a mysterious figure who, since 2008, has been the unofficial king of “weird Twitter.” What will happen to him ...

Popular comedy Twitter account Dril told WaPo that the platform will be "a beautiful thing" under Elon Musk. Dril has 1.7 million followers on Twitter and views Musk's takeover as a "work in ...

A Dril tweet about corncobs spurred a minor squabble between center and left-wing media types. He had also remained anonymous, which made him somewhat of an anomaly on the internet of 2017, ...

Retweeting a Dril tweet feels like a small gift to those who follow you on Twitter: To do so is to insert a bit of antic eccentricity into the stream of bad news (or as we call it in 2017, “news ...

Dril is the collective voice of the internet. On Monday, the Twitter users hilariously trolled his followers by recording video replies. 'Please do not reply to my posts,' he told his fans.

Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Two Twitter icons joined Bluesky on Thursday. Dril was first ...

We associate Dril with Twitter, but he is much larger than that. He is a patron saint of the internet itself—a rare rallying point and muse for everyone, regardless of affiliation or creed.

Dril says he finds “a lot of aspects of Twitter very disgusting,” adding that “it would not be my first choice of websites to get popular on, but that’s just the way it goes. And I got to ...

But Dril isn’t anyone, and his posts online have largely come to define the vernacular and culture of both the internet at large and Twitter in particular. He’s the Wise Fool of online ...

Dril has made the hellish parts of Twitter less hellish for a decade, earning celebrity fans and asking only for anonymity in return. So why did someone reveal his true identity?