Carp Tweets
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About
Carp Tweets is a self-replicating tweet featuring an image of a carp being held in a hand. In December 2020, the tweet received viral spread, helping promote the spread of self-replicating tweets as a format.
Origin
On December 18th, 2020, Twitter user @dm4uz3[1] posted a self-replicating tweet utilizing the conversational ads tweet promotion function. The tweet containing an image of a carp being held in a hand[2] and a "tweet #carp" button which allowed mobile users to post the exact copy of the tweet (shown below, left). At that time, on the desktop version of Twitter, the button is replaced with a link for a Wikipedia[2] entry for carp, which was later fixed (shown below, right).
Within 20 minutes, @dm4uz3 promoted[3] the tweet on Twitter.
According to @dm4uz3,[7][8] the post was inspired by Bingus self-replicating tweet, originally posted by Twitter[9] user @koopashi on November 25th, 2020.
Spread
In the following hours, carp tweet witnessed an exponential spread on Twitter (example video[4] shown below).
What even the fuck#carp pic.twitter.com/LUw47G3VJh
— Or am I?? 🎄 (@JoshTheVirgo) December 19, 2020
Within one hour of being posted, "carp" reached[5] Twitter trends in the United Kingdom with over 65,600 tweets posted (image shown below, left). Within two hours, "carp" accumulated[6] over 206,000 tweets (image shown below, right).
The viral spread of carp tweets inspired fan art, memes and meta jokes.
Various Examples
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DaCooper
Dec 19, 2020 at 07:01AM EST
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Dec 19, 2020 at 03:23AM EST