‘Gay Twitter’ is an umbrella term, underneath it has memes, pop stans, obsessions with 80’s TV stars, but most of all, it has a sense of community. “I was recognized at pride as ‘Miley Cystitis’”. When he said he’d be in London with his boyfriend and that we should meet up I thought “why not?” and was actually really excited at the prospect.” Just from those interactions it was obvious that we had a lot in common, but as we were essentially strangers that was all that was really holding the friendship together. “Up until we met, our relationship was based solely on liking/RTing each other’s tweets with the occasional reply, and we would also DM occasionally.
“it was a really positive experience which I’d love to have more often.” Says Retweeta. We are allowed to strip away any social norms and be whoever we want to be online, so do we really know who we are talking to? Could we be friends with the people who we retweet so often? Of course, with social media comes an online presence. There's lots of people on there I *would* hook up with though, but usually they don't live within bumming distance.” I've never really DM'd someone on there for a hookup. “I’ve hooked up with people who follow me on twitter, but just because I've happened to meet them in other contexts like… out at a club.
But can we utilize this social media platform to hookup? Is Twitter the new Grindr?
