UPDATE: Mashable community member PresHarryTruman pointed out to us that on Oct. 16, the Twitter account PimpTJefferson sent a nearly identical tweet to the one that Curran sent out on Monday night. It appears that the tweet may have been re-shared by Curran without giving credit to the original author. We wrote about that account here.
Patrick Curran is a college student at Boston University, set to graduate in 2015. He is in a fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He has 395 Twitter followers.
He's just another guy — and a perfect example that anything that anyone posts can go viral on the Internet.
The tweet below, which he sent a few hours before the foreign policy debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, has gone wildly viral. As of 10:30 PM, the tweet has been retweeted over 15,000 times.
Mitt Romneys five point plan1. To the left2. Take it back now y'all3. Right foot let's stomp4. Left foot let's stomp5. Cha Cha now yall
— Patrick Curran (@Pcurran86) October 22, 2012
During the debate, while the tweet started to pick up steam, Curran celebrated his Tweet's success.
I currently have 124 retweets on my Romney Five step tweet. Im a celebrity
— Patrick Curran (@Pcurran86) October 23, 2012
Thousands upon thousands of retweets later, Curran put it simply:
I think I just became famous
— Patrick Curran (@Pcurran86) October 23, 2012
BONUS: 10 Barack Obama Memes Worthy of Your Vote
A press photo of Barack and Michelle making "O RLY" faces quickly spread around the web and eventually transformed into the Obama "Not Bad" meme. The POTUS himself even acknowledged the meme during his Reddit AMA.
Image courtesy of Know Your Meme
The only thing more fun than Obama skateboarding would have been Obama in roller skates.
The Obama of Oz is a wizard whose Yellow Brick Road is Pennsylvania Ave.
Image courtesy of Meme Generator
A campaign stop soundbite from the president quickly transformed into images of Obama telling people like Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers what they didn't build.
Image courtesy of Know Your Meme
An official White House photograph from inside the Situation Room on the afternoon of the raid on Osama bin-Laden's compound just begged for modifications. The Internet happily obliged.
Image courtesy of Know Your Meme
Snopes says Obama didn't actually kick down a door, but it would've been pretty Internet legendary if he did.
Image courtesy of gifbin
Images of Obama throwing a snowball inspired the four panel treatment. In the image pictured, Barack proves he's more of a dog guy.
Image courtesy of Know Your Meme
In 2009, Vimeo user Eric Spiegelman pieced together 130 photographs of Obama taken at an event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in which the president's smile stayed consistent.
A little arithmetic: Oprah + Obama = Oprama.
A press photo of Barack and Michelle making "O RLY" faces quickly spread around the web and eventually transformed into the Obama "Not Bad" meme. The POTUS himself even acknowledged the meme during his Reddit AMA.
Image courtesy of Know Your Meme
The only thing more fun than Obama skateboarding would have been Obama in roller skates.
The Obama of Oz is a wizard whose Yellow Brick Road is Pennsylvania Ave.
Image courtesy of Meme Generator
A campaign stop soundbite from the president quickly transformed into images of Obama telling people like Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers what they didn't build.
Image courtesy of Know Your Meme
An official White House photograph from inside the Situation Room on the afternoon of the raid on Osama bin-Laden's compound just begged for modifications. The Internet happily obliged.
Image courtesy of Know Your Meme
Snopes says Obama didn't actually kick down a door, but it would've been pretty Internet legendary if he did.
Image courtesy of gifbin
Images of Obama throwing a snowball inspired the four panel treatment. In the image pictured, Barack proves he's more of a dog guy.
Image courtesy of Know Your Meme
In 2009, Vimeo user Eric Spiegelman pieced together 130 photographs of Obama taken at an event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in which the president's smile stayed consistent.
A little arithmetic: Oprah + Obama = Oprama.
The President's Twitter account tries to get their own meme started by sharingthis Run DNC image from Tumblr page esus4.
Image courtesy of esus4
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