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“Being bad”, Sam Va Lentín and the Bartual thread: the tweets that deserve to go down in internet history

2022-12-03T22:32:41.504Z


The milestones of Twitter Spain 1.0: a panel of 18 users selects the archive of a social network that is about to change forever


The first version of Twitter is over.

Elon Musk, the new owner of the social network, plans news that can make it change profoundly.

EL PAÍS has asked a panel of 18 Spanish tweeters from different fields what they would keep from the network from its origin.

It is not easy to choose because there are great tweets, magnificent threads and moments where Twitter has become a tool for social impact.

It is difficult to assess the importance of a network, but it is clear that none of this selection would exist without Twitter.

It is progress, beyond criticism.

The only two criteria for the participants is that they limit themselves to Spain (it is already impossible to condense a single country) and that they choose between 5 and 10 tweets, threads or moments of impact.

The name and credit of the participants is at the end.

The only weighting is that the panelists who chose more tweets gave fewer points to each choice.

The differences are few although there was a lot to choose from.

The first two classified have received a differential number of votes.

Starting from third, it gradually falls to 17th place, which is the last one that has received at least two votes.

From there, there is a small extra selection.

In total, more than 60 different examples came out.

This is the result:

1. “Weird things have started to happen.”

The thread of Manuel Bartual

I've been on vacation for a couple of days, in a hotel near the beach.

Everything was going well until strange things started to happen.

pic.twitter.com/6gd7Rqs6bL

— Manuel Bartual (@ManuelBartual) August 21, 2017

The winner is the origin of all threads.

He had that just doubt between reality and fiction and the chapters: "He changed the rules of the game on Twitter," says Jorge Corrales.

“A site dedicated to comment and opinion became a laboratory for new narrative forms.

In addition, it managed to be a global phenomenon as important as a Madrid-Barça or a last episode of Game of Thrones ”, he adds.

The thread is from the summer of 2017 and its impact immediately went online: "Different media echoed it and a large part of Twitter in Spanish was hooked," says Mar Manrique.

“Manuel's thread set the precedent for the Twitter

thriller

genre.

Other creators have since joined the trend of narrating a mystery in which users and followers participate to help solve the enigma.

2. “Be mean!

Good evening colleagues”, says the president

Pedro Sánchez's 2010 tweets are a reminder of the ingenuity of the beginning of the networks.

"Being bad" is the most famous of the tweets of the one who later became Secretary General of the PSOE and President of the Government.

The second most repeated is: "With my colleagues at the luna rosa restaurant, eating a great pizza."

They continue to be among the tweets with the most retweets and

likes

from the president, at the level of interactions he had with Miley Cyrus and Ibai Llanos.

be bad!

good evening colleagues

— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) November 19, 2010

The account “Mr.

Handsome”, who tweets about how well Pedro Sánchez does everything, is one of the many who remember those tweets: “I really like Pedro Sánchez's old tweets that take us back to the beginnings of this network when everything was more naïve.

There is a point of nostalgia in the joke and I think they gain a lot now that he is president because they take us to when he was a normal citizen and they have their point of tenderness.

3. The “Sam Va Lentín” meme reaches its origin

The best moments of the networks are when they collide with reality.

For Twitter, February 14 was the "day of bad jokes."

This meme about Valentine's Day, inspired by a character from

The Lord of the Rings

who was called Sam and was slow, reached the actor who played him in 2021.

Naturally, the tweet exploded: "One of the best things about Twitter is (was?) when tweeters get together to make a joke about something very absurd," says Jaime Rubio Hancock.

"Sam goes slow is the best example: a very silly, untranslatable meme, which is celebrated every February 14 and which was even joined by the actor who played Sam in

The Lord of the Rings."

For the Spanish and for everyone who wants to know, Mr. Frodo will live in my heart forever!

🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/3A6alx6Z7K

— Sean Astin (@SeanAstin) February 14, 2021

4. "I will never forgive you"

After Pedro Sánchez, the mix between politics and popular culture has a second clear qualifier: the popular Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, on Three Kings Day 2016. “The mythical tweet represents what Twitter has become: fanaticism, polarization, politicization of any nonsense and obsession with denigrating the rival”, says the author of the @norcoreano account.

My 6-year-old daughter: "Mom, Gaspar's suit is not real."


I will never forgive you, Manuela Carmena.

Never.

#cavalgatatve

— Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo (@cayetanaAT) January 5, 2016

5. Íñigo Errejón and his radiation core

Intellectual tweets have their peak in this example of Íñigo Errejón: “Social networks are the food of the ego.

On Instagram you try to project a life you don't have and on Twitter you have to show off your intellect.

Here Errejón mixed Gramsci with Laclau and the brown mess.

I was trying to explain the cultural battle that was brewing”, explains @norcoreano.

The hegemony moves in the tension between the radiating nucleus and the seduction of the lateral allied sectors.

Affirmation - opening.

— Íñigo Errejón (@ierrejon) June 19, 2015

In the responses to that tweet there are several jokes, including one from Pablo Iglesias.

6. Two soldiers buried together in Romania

Bartual's thread had some other great examples.

For Fernando Siles, this one by Guillem Clua is even better.

“Clua in 2018 wrote the fictional story of Emil and Xaver based on a real grave, village and setting in Eastern Europe.

Many people also thought it was real.

It's the most beautiful piece of fiction I've ever read.

It shocked some people so much that a current famous tweeter, Dan Gamboa, went there to try to learn the true story of Emil and Xaver in another thread.

Reading both one after the other is a guaranteed afternoon of pleasure and surprises”.

The other day I promised you that I would explain the mystery behind this tombstone where two soldiers from the Austro-Hungarian Empire who fought and died in World War I rest... and who were buried together.

thread goes

pic.twitter.com/rEdzwIN98k

— Guillem Clua (@guillemclua) November 22, 2018

Bartual himself says that this thread is one of his favorites: “From the names inscribed on the tombstone, he imagined a romantic love story between two soldiers of the First World War.

The thread, published over several days, was gaining visibility and followers, to the point that some readers have come to travel to Romania to be photographed next to the grave.

7. The genre of the cultural thread, with #LaBrasaTorrijos at the helm

Fiction was more successful in the threads.

But culture and sharing knowledge has been essential: "The number of people who dedicate themselves to making threads to share their knowledge of different sectors out of pure altruism is very remarkable," says José Luis Antúnez.

In Rome there is a building built 2000 years ago with concrete (yes, with concrete), but supported by a column of light and space.



Perhaps there is another better building in the world, but I don't think we will find it in this life.



In today's #LaBrasaTorrijos, the Pantheon of Agrippa.



THREAD 👇 pic.twitter.com/yHH7lgnRDV

— Pedro Torrijos (@Pedro_Torrijos) February 4, 2021

Pedro Torrijos has been the most voted in this area: "During the pandemic, the so-called cultural Twitter took off, a group of disseminators started and led by Pedro Torrijos, who had been around before," says Fernando Siles.

“Every Thursday Torrijos publishes a thread written live from the sunny Villaverde neighborhood and gathers thousands of followers who wait for its publication as if it were a television program, it is a social and cultural phenomenon.

Possibly the most mythical thread of him is that of the Pantheon in Rome ”.

8. The little-traveled pyramids of David Bisbal

It is the first deleted tweet from the list.

It survives in some recycled capture since 2011. It was the Arab spring in Egypt, the first great milestone of the networks, and Bisbal thought “poor pyramids”.

“He is one of the tweets that I have always found most interesting,” says Marta García Aller.

“On the one hand, because it recalls the context of the Arab spring, the first tweeted revolution, when we wanted to think that Twitter was going to be a fundamental tool for the promotion of democracy (later we had 15-M, which would not be understood without Twitter ).

Bisbal's tweet is revealing of how naive Twitter was and how these reputation crises in networks were new for the stars because they gave their opinion on everything and often without intermediaries”.

Screenshot of David Bisbal's deleted tweet from 2011.

Fernando de Córdoba adds another detail: “He was not the first celebrity to screw up, but perhaps the first (at least in Spain) to go viral.

It is the moment in which we realized that Twitter was also good for that: to deconstruct the image that the media, the representatives, the companies, had created of the idols.

It is also a representation of the time when things on the internet were simpler and not everything was measured and planned months before and surrounded by a thousand contracts and texts approved by ten committees”.

The slip deserved a story in EL PAÍS: "Such has been the response to his words, that he has deleted his message and has put another in which he says: 'The insult is the only thing you have left, and also a lot of free time'", the text said.

9. When we laugh at ISIS with El Cordobés

pic.twitter.com/ci1iFf2RwF

— Dolors Boatella (@DolorsBoatella) August 24, 2017

Days after the attack on La Rambla in Barcelona, ​​a jihadist came out to threaten Spain.

On Twitter he was funny.

Rubio Hancock wrote an article about that: “Another of the best things about Twitter is how tweeters come together to make a joke about something very serious.

In this case, after the 17A attacks in Barcelona, ​​they mercilessly mocked the ISIS terrorist who claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened the Spaniards, but who, despite all that pomposity, was "el Cordobés", the son of "la Thomas”.

These jokes showed the absurdity of the terrorist discourse with jokes and montages”, says Rubio Hancock now.

10. 75 cents for some templates or "ask me, forgive me"

Luckily it all started because a tweeter was bored: “Andrea Menéndez Faya could not imagine the repercussion that the real anecdote that one day she decided to tweet out of sheer boredom would have.

Her "She asks me to forgive me" is one of the phrases that will go down in the history of Twitter Spain, ”says Bartual.

Here we tell the inside story (and the woman was acquitted).

He asked my boss if he claimed the 75 cents


He said he just wanted her to "ask for forgiveness"



The lady understands that the Chinese man asks for forgiveness and says: I DON'T FORGIVE HIM



The Chinese man looks at the judge: WHAT IS SHE ASKING OF ME

— Andrea 🏳️‍🌈 (@MenendezFaya) May 23, 2018

11. “@Police!

I just solved a crime."

The third major fictional thread on Twitter Spain also has several votes.

It was one more step with respect to Bartual's: "From Bartual, new threads arose that played with the literary possibilities of mixing fiction with reality," says Siles.

“Modesto Garcia's mystery thread about how he discovered a murder on Twitter is probably the most important sequel to the Bartual phenomenon.

A thread that had many people deceived others by investigating and speculating and to which the police themselves responded.

@Police!

I just solved a crime via Twitter and you need to take action on the matter immediately.

@jor_g_t (in the center of the photo) passed away days ago, and the case was closed as a suicide, but it was a murder and I can prove it.

The killer is in the photo.

pic.twitter.com/AItVxWdEwF

– Mr. Brightside (@plot_tuit) June 2, 2018

12. Hands up, this is a bank

The mix of news and humor is perhaps one of the greatest sources of success on Twitter.

The user @obdriftwood wrote in 2013 one of those great moments.

“Context: Bank bailout, preferential crisis, the people disillusioned against capital... 15m.

And my friend Otis posts this tweet," says Pepo Jiménez.

All our lives looking behind our backs when withdrawing money from the ATM so they wouldn't rob us, and it turns out that we had to look ahead.

— Otis B. Driftwood (@obdriftwood) March 25, 2013

13. He called me fat, period

The singer Amaia Montero has the second deleted tweet from the list.

After reading an interview with Malú where she asked herself "why does a singer have to be thin?"

In reference to Montero, she replied: "Neither prominence nor hosts, she has called me fat, period."

It is one of the phrases in the history of Twitter: "It was incredible, in the end something very typical of Twitter in other countries, the

beefs

[piques] and that does not always happen here," says Janira Planes.

14. The 'community manager' who trolls

Another key Twitter genre is risk-taking brands.

“I would highlight iconic tweets from brands that are trolled or that are trolled,” says Antúnez.

"The pioneering example worldwide is KFC Spain doing

shitposting

."

Mar Manrique also adds the case of Ryanair: “Another type of relevant tweet on Twitter Spain are those made by brands with a hooligan and hesitant tone, such as KFC or Ryanair.

Twitter is surely the most rogue social network and that is also noticeable in the tone used by some brands to talk to their community.

This type of

community manager

is born from this social network.

damn human let me order kfc pic.twitter.com/Bh6aSF0u3d

– KFC (@KFC_ES) March 16, 2021

15. I put the Three Kings

The second panel participant who has a selected tweet is Fernando de Córdoba.

It is still for another type of genre: collaboration between users.

In 2018 he proposed digitally adding an image of the Three Kings to what is seen from the windows of Spanish families.

Last year's Twelfth Night I decided to "take a photo" of the Three Wise Men from my window so that my nephews would freak out the next day: https://t.co/z3agq55EO3

— Fernando de Córdoba 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@gamusino) January 6, 2018

It was a success and became a small tradition: "For several consecutive years, Fernando de Córdoba has proposed a stupendous Christmas game: based on a template with the shadow silhouette of the Three Wise Men, he offered to include it in the photos of the streets that they sent him to make the children believe that their parents had managed to photograph them on Twelfth Night.

The initiative has always been such a success that every year many people sign up to help Fernando with the photomontages”, says Bartual.

16. A great transmedia example: the Ministry of Time

The combination of networks with other media (especially television) is another example of the use of Twitter: "The account of the Ministry of Time was the first television program that understood that Twitter was not just a place to promote, but also to participate and create content just for them,” says Corrales.

“In other words, a symbiosis between what you are seeing on television and what you are seeing on your mobile.

This has been going on for years and no one has ever done anything like it again.

We have to love you :__)



PS: we miss you https://t.co/hwPhmaXnWs

– Ministry of Time (@MdT_TVE) August 5, 2020

17. The limit of great jokes

Another panelist who has a selected tweet, a mix of sports and risky humor.

The tweet of the century, Gerardo Tecé calls it.

“Tweeters are sometimes the minstrels of our time.

Those who sing the news as it happens, with immediacy and humor.

It was January 2015 and, after a long time without scoring, Fernando Torres scored a couple of goals for Real Madrid.

At the same moment that Torres scored the second, the amateur leader of North Korea launched what would be considered, due to its speed, precision and bad temper, the tweet of the century.

The last Torres double that I remember was done by Bin Laden.

— Kim Jong-un (@norcoreano) January 15, 2015

18. And a very long chime

Proof of Twitter's contribution to popular culture in Spain is this long (not complete) list of unique votes.

The famous tweeter Carlos Langa has received two votes, but for different tweets: “Carlos Langa is probably my favorite tweeter.

For being able to generate good movie scenes in two lines.

Here is one of many examples of Twitter's Billy Wilder”, says Tecé, who chooses this example from the 140-character era:

I have composed a song for you.


"Look, leave it.

— Carlos Langa (@CarlosLanga) May 25, 2012

Science has had its place, which Antonio Martínez Ron highlights here: "In terms of climate change, this one by José Miguel Viñas seems brilliant to me," he says.

I propose the ALPINO pencil boxes as an indicator of climate change.

Comparison of one from 1970 and a current one :-) pic.twitter.com/8ftMCz0PQ0

– José Miguel Viñas (@Divulgameteo) March 12, 2016

Also sport, in addition to Torres' double.

"Piqué discovered before anyone else that

celebrities

could use their networks to compete with information from the traditional media and with the same veracity as them."

Stays.

pic.twitter.com/RtPHUr9iTH

— Gerard Piqué (@3gerardpique) July 23, 2017

They could not miss the collective events.

Eduardo Arcos highlights

Game of Thrones

, but Eurovision or the World Cup are other clear examples: “Those of us who live in Europe don't have the luxury of watching most of the American series live.

It is changing with the

streaming

platforms and series that make all the episodes available to watch them in a row, as Netflix usually does, but years ago it was not the usual.

Then there was

Game of Thrones

.

The series, which was a cultural phenomenon, was discussed like a live football game when HBO aired it.

Living in Madrid, I had never had the opportunity to experience it.

But I was in Mexico City for a couple of weeks in May 2015, when one of the record-breaking episodes aired on Twitter, when Jon Snow is revived.

2016, before November, was a curious year for Twitter, because we all still felt a certain sense of belonging, community and ingenuity.

Having the opportunity to watch, and be part of the broadcast of such an important episode, and to be able to comment live, in real time, on what was happening was one of the most special moments for me using Twitter.”

Jon Snow is resurrected and appears on the poster to advertise the sixth season of Game of Thrones: D pic.twitter.com/3R9uX8Nf9i"

— Henry Oroño (@hobravo) November 23, 2015

From here, there is a long list of remembered tweets, mostly humorous.

In Verne's newsletter they have made a similar list to continue remembering what this network has given.

Like the 15M at the beginning of the network and others:

Moved.

Proud.

Happy.

I'm in #campingsol, I wish everyone could ever feel that everything is possible

— Marilin Gonzalo (@marilink) May 20, 2011


We just ran out of dinner pic.twitter.com/o47Ojj0Hwo

— Odilas (@__Odilas) December 24, 2015

This is the island of Tristán de Cuna, the most remote inhabited place on the planet.


It's a crazy place so I'll open a thread and tell you 👇 pic.twitter.com/hzl4AMwifw

— Mystic Blue (@Azul_Mistico) April 29, 2020

In case this goes to shit, I leave you here the thread of the girl who got ants in her chichi because it is the history of Spain.#RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/E1kNj2ZAUs

— Seyla ❄️ Commissions open (@extremadness) November 18, 2022

THIS BACTERIA that you see here is known as "litobacter mycota".

It's only been a year since it was discovered and IT'S ABOUT TO CHANGE THE WORLD AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.



In this #THREAD I explain why.

pic.twitter.com/xOoWctdYu1

— Juanjo Ramírez Mascaró (@ramirezmascaro) June 28, 2018

Here the story of that World War Bot.

And here is an example of citizen journalism on Twitter, with the beginning of the end of the Paco Sanz case.

I also join #tweetsofthedecade with this contribution.

When an Asturian dolphin caught Paco Sanz before anyone else in this world pic.twitter.com/NXgHmpF71a

— N (@aere_n) December 5, 2019

Here is the list from the panel that allowed this list to be created, in no specific order:

Ainhoa Marzol (comunicadoracultural), Jaime Rubio Hancock (periodista de EL PAÍS), Fernando de Córdoba (estratega de marca, contenidos y narrativa), Eduardo Arcos (director de Hipertextual), Janira Planes (directora de comunicación de Wuolah y periodista), Marta García Aller (periodista y autora de Lo imprevisible), José Luis Antúnez (fundador de iniciativas pioneras en la internet hispana de los 2000, especializado en ayudar a algunas de las startups más importantes de los últimos años estrategia de negocio, producto y marca), Manuel Bartual (guionista), Jorge Corrales (escritor, guionista y también profesor en la Escuela se Escritores), Fernando Siles (autor de la cuenta @itineratur), Mar Manrique (periodista y creadora de la newsletter Fleet Street), Marilín Gonzalo (periodista de tecnología y Políticas Públicas en Newtral.es), Antonio Martínez Ron (periodista científico y autor de

Something new in heaven

), Paloma Llaneza (lawyer), Pepo Jiménez (author of the @kurioso account) and the authors of the accounts @gerardotece, @norcoreano and @mrhandsome.

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