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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 ...
With over 1.7 million followers, Dril, known for his absurdist humor, is the type of influencer who could only emerge on an app like Twitter. Dril started his account in September 2008, just two ...
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 ...
As of August 2024, the @dril account has over 2 million followers, and we suspect it's about to get a bunch more. Social media is losing its mind over the fact that a dril tweet was used in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Update as of 5:32 p.m. on April 22: Users appear to have suggested to @dril that this move on the part of Twitter may qualify as "false endorsement" which would be against the law. @drill appears ...
The internet meme factor that is 'dril' has responded after one of his many viral tweets was featured in a press release from the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign mocking Donald Trump. Late on ...