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#WeMetOnTwitter shows what a successful DM slide looks like
Cupid’s Arrow is no match for a flirty direct message.
Sliding into his DMs might be more fruitful than you think.
On this Valentine’s Day couples are celebrating their relationships by toasting to the social networking platform that started it all: Twitter. With the straightforward hashtag #WeMetOnTwitter, couples are posting appropriately mushy selfies and professionally taken pics chronicling their love stories on the website that started it all.
#weMetOnTwitter
…then got married 💍 pic.twitter.com/rCWWXr11jq— O-ren Ishii (@LacyLovejoy) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter happy Valentine’s Day from your favorite scumbags ♥️ pic.twitter.com/EvZ27TMIag
— Not Macklemore (@killadelfkid) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter pic.twitter.com/q9FX9eAyHt
— Ra’sclat Al Ghul (@Felonious_munk) February 14, 2017
Some couples have been together for years, and have even gotten married—milestones that show how online dating has truly changed the game.
#WeMetOnTwitter at first…then we randomly met at #SXSW. Shots were shot…and now here we are, almost 3 years later! Lol pic.twitter.com/xU5nT7Ql2Z
— Young Manchego (@Acquired_Taste) February 14, 2017
Quite unconventional the way it all ended up but #WeMetOnTwitter #ValentinesDay pic.twitter.com/Ez2KTe0jg2
— Alternative Satch (@bluesatch) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter 2009….. got together in feb 2013 … life happened and now we here with two sets of twins lol pic.twitter.com/6YyUl94GfJ
— .Ziggy M. (@MsZiggySunshine) February 14, 2017
what a difference five years makes… started with a tweet now we here.@NigelBen21 #wemetontwitter#HappyValentinesDay pic.twitter.com/ZKA07zdkPY
— tash. ; ) (@tati_mama) February 14, 2017
Other couples are celebrating the lives that have joined them along the way.
#WeMetOnTwitter She dropped me a DM in January of 2014. We are almost three years in with a son pic.twitter.com/xtpFpWxa7d
— The Sleep Provider (@tbeanie97) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter, traveled a bit, now we’re expecting a baby girl pic.twitter.com/Z465Q2Xji0
— Cassian Andor (@_PapiLuiz) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter & now she’s my future baby mama 😛 pic.twitter.com/0gYWNVWp9T
— Anthony (@AyyChann) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter One Deployment together, 6 years, 2 babies and a life we built together all started from a retweet. pic.twitter.com/kUSns0OQ6z
— MyBlackJournal (@BRashadBeal) February 14, 2017
And some are completely unembarrassed of how following the cliché of “sliding into their direct messages” has gotten them a partner in life.
#WeMetOnTwitter last year I slid in his dm’s. He was in Houston and I was in SF. I flew him out, we now have an apartment together pic.twitter.com/dOFhUSanM3
— Sarah (@yungsarah_) February 14, 2017
I did it over but #WeMetOnTwitter ❤️ pic.twitter.com/x7DJs5GsR6
— Dev ✨ (@mamiidev) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter started with a DM, now we here pic.twitter.com/zKmf6jBJba
— ashleigh (@onlyAshleigh) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter… 3 years together now. 💙 pic.twitter.com/9ynaFMgYbd
— G (@_AirThuggin) February 14, 2017
Though this couple may have just met last month, it hasn’t stopped them from showing the internet what’s possible when you take a chance.
#WeMetOnTwitter i know it’s a bit early… but when you know, you know. #ShootYourShot2017 🙃😂❤️ pic.twitter.com/7fPF64QQzB
— mulatto grace jones (@IAmMereBear) February 14, 2017
and shout out to @MatthewACherry for being the unknown cupid in this situation.
black twitter, i will forever love you for sending him.
— mulatto grace jones (@IAmMereBear) February 14, 2017
Said it before, saying it again: never underestimate the power of this medium. I genuinely can’t imagine life w/o @IAmMereBear. ❤ pic.twitter.com/FR7pcUvxgS
— Bae Grylls (@TheAuracl3) February 14, 2017
I made a friend & kindred spirit but if you had told me I’d fall head over heels for @IAmMereBear a month ago, I’d have laughed in your face
— Bae Grylls (@TheAuracl3) February 14, 2017
Some bitter folks, however, are rolling with the punches of being single, joking about the absence of their own Twitter bae.
#WeMetOnTwitter and now look at us 😍 pic.twitter.com/NZpcipiZj2
— Tobi (@bobimono) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter one thing lead to another, then BOOM, here we are today pic.twitter.com/ecaTmxBWaV
— Riverdale Spotlight™ (@Spotlight6800) February 14, 2017
#WeMetOnTwitter They live in California I live in Tennessee, but there’s nothing love can’t overcome ❤️ pic.twitter.com/4cbJpdxv22
— Dillon (@ILostMyDick) February 14, 2017
I have been using twitter allll wrong. Y’all found some real love on here. I gota clean my act up. #WeMetOnTwitter pic.twitter.com/K0zsmMHI5H
— Young King Negro (@YoungKingNegro) February 14, 2017
People are posting #WeMetOnTwitter stories about them getting married and living happily ever after, meanwhile I can’t even get a text back.
— NUFF 💬 (@nuffsaidNY) February 14, 2017
Let this be a lesson folks—the worst thing that could happen after sliding into someone’s DMs is rejection.
When you go through the #WeMetOnTwitter hashtag and realize that people falling in love from sliding in DMs. Shoot your shot people. pic.twitter.com/81jX28oIaA
— ㅤㅤㅤ (@The__Prototype) February 14, 2017
And the best thing? It could be a shot at love, no Cupid’s arrow necessary.
#WeMetOnTwitter Ladies shoot your shot pic.twitter.com/DaICzttsag
— Anthony Moore (@AllThatandMoore) February 14, 2017

Samantha Grasso
Samantha Grasso is a former IRL staff writer for the Daily Dot with a reporting emphasis on immigration. Her work has appeared on Los Angeles Magazine, Death And Taxes, Revelist, Texts From Last Night, Austin Monthly, and she has previously contributed to Texas Monthly.