Given any kind of software toy, people on Twitter will find ways to abuse it and make it look ridiculous. The popular new website Tweet Mashup is no exception. It scans two Twitter accounts to produce weird, hybrid tweets that sound like neither or both of the parents. Inevitably, the most popular use for it seems to be mashing up various accounts with @realdonaldtrump.
is this true pic.twitter.com/VzEgNniOJs
— 🐟 jitka 🐟 (@jitka) November 21, 2016
agreed pic.twitter.com/78fjFABcag
— 🐟 jitka 🐟 (@jitka) November 21, 2016
melania and I do love to talk about Oach Lane pic.twitter.com/iiyShjkEBf
— 🐟 jitka 🐟 (@jitka) November 21, 2016
hehehe pic.twitter.com/1zJmZNvnjt
— pointy (@chipspopandabar) November 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/FrightShark/status/800801457402507266
https://t.co/q621DW7Cqz has spoken.
— FalKoopa🌈 (@FalKoopa_) November 21, 2016
Wow. pic.twitter.com/d5w4a9RBlT
I am having way too much fun with this. https://t.co/eyLDzbM7CM pic.twitter.com/J0bM5X4ipn
— Trevor (@_TrevorSpace_) November 21, 2016
@devon_tracey @nfp_reece @Sargon_of_Akkad #tweetmashup
— POng🚽 ($₳DA, $₳GIX, $ERG, $WMT, $COTI ©) (@Judge_POng) November 21, 2016
Trump agrees… pic.twitter.com/Bl37gUKd3A
Or with Dril, the prototypical Weird Twitter account:
the @dril / @freddiedeboer twitter mashup is truly the frankenstein with the darkest takes pic.twitter.com/kotrhoMTvc
— august west (@microfamous) November 21, 2016
I assume everyone has already done tweetmashup for Dril DeGrasse Tyson? pic.twitter.com/AsPr5aItQO
— Nathan (@nscranor) November 21, 2016
got it working had to turn off blockers also i'm dying laughing (https://t.co/19LRRAtw6Y) pic.twitter.com/Xw1pHpAPld
— cohost.org/wooper, woopvonwoop on discord (@wooper) November 21, 2016
https://t.co/M1DUvdXaJX … i think its broken though… it keeps flip-flopping on key issues pic.twitter.com/2bS6kKaoD5
— august west (@microfamous) November 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/prosperdave/status/800785023339139072
But the best play is to put the two of them together:
https://t.co/7CY1PETu4R is a great website pic.twitter.com/F62gUGnOWq
— josh terry (@JoshhTerry) November 21, 2016
The best use of this tweetmashup thing is combining dril and trump tweets pic.twitter.com/pcqvVJodtd
— miller low life (@itwasthreezero) November 21, 2016
It’s amazing how well this works. Would it be surprising for Dril or Trump to tweet any of these things? Not… really. In fact, New York magazine’s Select All pointed out back in May how unintentionally Dril-esque some of Trump’s tweets have been.
Tweet Mashup arrives just in time for this year’s Shit Account Tournament, a vote to determine the worst account on Twitter. Could some mutant combination of the terrible contenders actually be more annoying or offensive than the actual accounts? Guess we’ll find out on Dec. 1, when the Shit Account bracket is released.
Meanwhile, you can just use Tweet Mashup to slam together incongruous celebrities or make unlikely pairings of your friends. It’ll be hard to beat Donald Trump x Dril, but any two sufficiently mismatched personalities should give you a funny result.