About

Best Brazilian-Portuguese Tweets Of All Time refers to a viral post by @afrolatinocae on September 2022 asking people to share "the best tweet in the Brazilian language ever written in history." Twitter users replied by uploading funny and memorable tweets saved from the past several years.

Origin

On September 20th, 2022, @afrolatinocae^[1] posted a message on Twitter asking people to remember the most iconic tweets ever in the Brazilian language. In three days the post had 26,000 likes and 7,000 retweets with thousands of users bringing back old memes and tweets shared on the platform.

qual o melhor tweet em lingua brasileira já escrito na história?

— cae #Vote21 🇵🇸 (@afrolatinocae) September 20, 2022

Spread

The post went viral on Twitter and some people started to interact by remembering the best moments in the "Brazilian language" on the platform, like this December 22nd, 2020 interaction^[2] where a non-Portuguese speaker confused the abbreviation "mlk"(similar to "bro" in English) with Martin Luther King. The tweet received 73,000 likes and 6,000 retweets in two days.

sempre solto uma risadinha lembrando desse https://t.co/7GEqOekQGX pic.twitter.com/dmL0IxKlXN

— gabi (@dwkmm) September 21, 2022

Another notable example was this tweet by @makimasfate posted to Twitter^[4] on September 22, 2022. The tweet includes images of an entertaining Twitter exchange and answers the original Tweet's question. It gained nearly 78,000 likes and 11,800 retweets in only five days.

essa sequência eu acho muito forte https://t.co/kvnJfIIrbA pic.twitter.com/Loc7q2X4xw

— ؘ (@makimasfate) September 22, 2022

@lluscka brought the trend to TikTok^[3] on September 22nd, 2022, with a compilation of the best tweets he found.

Various Examples

External References

^[1] Twitter – @afrolatinocae

^[2] Twitter – @dwkmm

^[3] TikTok – @lluscka

^[4] Twitter – @makimasfate