Hillary’s instantly iconic “delete your account” tweet is her most retweeted post ever -

[Surya Gayatri]

12m ago 21:07

According to Twitter, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s instantly iconic “delete your account” tweet is her most retweeted post ever - it’s currently clocking out at 149,000 retweets and counting.

Her previous most-tweeted posts include her campaign announcement, a post celebrating gay pride and a tweet about the boy band One Direction.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton)
July 9, 2015

The boys are right. We need everyone's help to get the planet moving in the right direction. http://t.co/rNQSBSmgJ8 #action1D

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/jun/09/presidential-campaign-bernie-sanders-meet-obama-white-house-clinton-trump

[forjusticethunders]

1. As in so many other things, Hillary works to improve her shortcomings.

I never thought I'd see the day I'd be praising Hillary Clinton's twitter game

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R

[Cha]

3. So... I saw the ugly tweet from DT.. so her tweet to him

was just .. "Delete your account"?! Rofl

[sheshe2]

4. Gotta love her~

Thanks, Surya.

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Pleasure!

[LiberalFighter]

6. How about, "We are deleting you."

[Hekate]

7. I missed it -- wth did the Trumpster tweet? I like the response, regardless!

[grossproffit]

8. Here it is.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/740973710593654784

Don: Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants four more years of Obama—but nobody else does!

Hillary: Delete your account.

[Hekate]

11. Thanks! SMH

[Her Sister]

9. Something something obama something something crooked

That's he gist of it!

[grossproffit]

10. 200k retweets for Hillary and only 15k for Trump.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. K&R! She's GOT THIS, lol!

[johnp3907]

13. Can someone explain it to me?

I seriously don't get it.

[Surya Gayatri]

14. Here ya go:

This explains it: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/9/11895658/clinton-trump-twitter

"Delete your account" is a pretty standard joke tweet, especially in political and media Twitter (which both the people writing "Hillary Clinton"'s tweets, and the people reading them in the middle of a Thursday afternoon, are likely to be familiar with). But this is a well-executed iteration of it.

You don't tweet "delete your account" in response to an outrageous or offensive tweet, because it's not a serious demand. So many of the things that Trump tweets (or retweets) wouldn't be appropriate targets. Rather, "delete your account" is used when someone has tried to be funny on Twitter — for example, by attempting to land a sick burn — and failed.

That's a pretty good description of Trump's tweet. "Crooked Hillary" was never his best nickname, and it's not enough to carry a whole tweet. And the "nobody else does" joke, while it plays okay to his base, isn't his strongest material — Obama is a pretty popular president, and way more people hate Clinton than hate Obama.

The other reason this is funny, of course, is that it might actually be a good idea for Donald Trump to delete his Twitter account.

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Don't feel bad. I don't DO Twitter and didn't get it at first either! LOL!

[johnp3907]

15. Ah, thanks!

I don't do Twitter, so I don't speak Twit. I hate to even look at most tweets because they always just look like when Sarge Snorkel swears at Beetle Bailey.