Introducing #Oomf, Twitter’s Best Ever Hashtag

It stands for “one of my followers,” and might also contain the entire spectrum of human experience.

I know, right? Now tell your friends!
Introducing #Oomf, Twitter's Best Ever...
John Herrman

#Oomf has been around for a while, but really blew up this month:

Like all great hashtags, it’s extremely simple and therefore very versatile: it means, simply, “one of my followers.” The basic and infinitely flexible rubric is, “#oomf is,” so, basically, it’s hashtagged, institutionalized subtweeting. And it’s perfect.

4. Some of the tweets are just playful:

It's bout time for #Oomf to get a new avi , Lol 😂😂

9. A ton of them are flirty, wistful, or sometimes more direct than that:

16. But what makes this hashtag the best hashtag of all time is the passive aggression. There is SO MUCH ANGER here, it’s #oomf’s raison d’être:

I would say something to #Oomf but I think she hates me.

#oomf did not contact me the whole day yesterday! Hmph I see u!

i want #oomf to come at me , so i can just shut her the fuck down !

#oomf is a 🍎🍏🍌🍈🎂 translation FRUIT CAKE, seeing as #oomf can't see emojis lol

Had a dream about #oomf . Looks like he went to sleep thinkin of me 😊

I wonder if #oomf gay .. He take pictures like he is !

#oomf is nice, sweet and cute. But I just see him as like a brother type. 😳

32. I MEAN DANG:

We talk a lot about the future of Twitter on this site, but I think we might have been on the wrong track the whole time. The real future of Twitter is all #oomf, all the time.

#Oomf gets it. Right #oomf? #Oomf?????

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