President Donald Trump ruled Twitter in the overnight hours from late Tuesday night (depending on your time zone)into Wednesday morning with an uncorrected Twitter typo that sent Trump obsessed media and politicos into a Twitter frenzy. Trump’s unfinished tweet, posted at 12:06 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, read, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”. In just two hours over 500,000 tweets were generated using the Trumpian non-word “covfefe”, with #covfefe topping Twitter’s trending sidebar. Trump did not post a follow-up, leaving the Twitterati to stay up late reveling in “covfefe”.
Despite the constant negative press covfefe
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017
Twitter Data Editor Elaine Filadelfo posted a graph showing how the keyword “covfefe” took off from zero mentions just after midnight EDT and took off like the Reagan recovery to thousands of mentions per minute, peaking at 2 a.m. when the chart cut off.
look what y’all have done #covfefe pic.twitter.com/sFiONvxrIQ
— Elaine Filadelfo (@ElaineF) May 31, 2017
Filadelfo reported that over 500,000 tweets with “covfefe” were posted in two hours, “Over half a million #covfefe tweets in 2 hours. At 2am. Go to bed, your work here is done. (Is mine?)”
Over half a million #covfefe tweets in 2 hours. At 2am. Go to bed, your work here is done. (Is mine?)
— Elaine Filadelfo (@ElaineF) May 31, 2017
Filadelpfo confirmed this was the first time “covfef” had ever appeared on Twitter.
first ever! https://t.co/HHumfiSScv
— Elaine Filadelfo (@ElaineF) May 31, 2017
As of 5 a.m. EDT Trump’s tweet was still getting thousands of reactions every fifteen minutes and had been retweeted over 118,000 times, favorited over 150,000 times and had received over 39,000 replies in the five hours since “covfefe” was tweeted.
In contrast Trump’s tweet on Monday morning about the Portland murders of two men defending a Muslim woman has been retweeted over 12,000 times, favorited over 51,000 times and received over 12,000 replies in about 42 hours.
Trolls of course were in their glory over “covfefe”. Below is a sample:
It’s cool to see you get activated by your Russian implants in the middle of a tweet.
— Jeffrey Grubb (@JeffGrubb) May 31, 2017
Your staff is arguing right now about who has to sneak into your room to dig the phone from under your gross nude body to delete this tweet.
— Jeffrey Grubb (@JeffGrubb) May 31, 2017
hello – donald did u have a stroke – someone check on him – @potus @IvankaTrump – dad has half tweeted about “covfefe” HE NEEDS HELP –#CHECK
— ROSIE (@Rosie) May 31, 2017
i will gladly pay u wednesday for a covfefe on thursday
— ROSIE (@Rosie) May 31, 2017
You OK, Donald? pic.twitter.com/JdFUrFgjvC
— Fusion (@Fusion) May 31, 2017
In addition to the mocking, faux concern for the president’s health were concerns about how long the tweet stayed up.
It’s now been 15 minutes and the President still hasn’t deleted this tweet. Follow us for continuing live covfefe pic.twitter.com/TTp76McJQE
— Fusion (@Fusion) May 31, 2017
I mean. This is some good shit right here. We’re at 15 minutes. How long til ANYONE on his staff has the balls to knock on his door in bed?
— Andy Juett (@andyjuett) May 31, 2017
Trump obsessives started creating “Covfefe” graphic images and selling t-shirts.
Take two #covfefe and call me in the morning! pic.twitter.com/DqPJ6CwhF7
— Perez (@ThePerezHilton) May 31, 2017
pic.twitter.com/ev5lATtUdq
— Tom Knight (@TJ_Knight) May 31, 2017
Can’t believe I just spent 15 minutes doing this at 6.30am… Totally worth it though
— Tom Knight (@TJ_Knight) May 31, 2017
when you summon covfefe pic.twitter.com/ettb06GNEi
— Matt Moskovciak (@MattMoskovciak) May 31, 2017
June is for #covfefe pride
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https://t.co/UfbF3QvkeV pic.twitter.com/8ZSZFLHgCW
— Zainub Amir (@zainubamir) May 31, 2017
pic.twitter.com/1u2YHWNFsS
— Declan Pierce (@DecPierce) May 31, 2017
While the media and politicos were going on and on about “covfefe”, a truck bomb exploded in Kabul at the same time, killing over 80 and wounding well over 300, and Russia fired several sea launched cruise missiles targeting ISIS in Syria.
UPDATE: Huge bomb blast kills dozens, wounds hundreds in Afghan capital Kabul https://t.co/nOB0tnVCmv by @MHarooni and @JoshJonSmith pic.twitter.com/7qLXlfvR09
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 31, 2017
#KabulBlast left a massive crater in diplomatic quarter. h/t @ArianaNews_ pic.twitter.com/lxcxiSsXFM
— Anuj Chopra (@AnujChopra) May 31, 2017
Russian Navy ships conducted strikes by 4 Kalibr cruise missiles on objects of ISIS terrorist grouping near Palmyra pic.twitter.com/yulxr1eGPL
— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) May 31, 2017
5 hrs since #covfefe …Good morning, world pic.twitter.com/IT1578M0KZ
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) May 31, 2017
But, Trump tweeted “covfefe”!
source http://capitalisthq.com/oh-my-covfefe-late-night-trump-twitter-typo-sets-off-frenzy-of-over-half-million-tweets-in-two-hours/
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