In the eleven years since Twitter revolutionised the way we use social media, it's been both used and abused by its one billion users.
It's helped mobilise revolutions such as the Arab Spring, and it can break huge news stories long before mainstream media are on the scene.
Then again, it's also routinely and inadvisably used by the 45th President of the United States , not to mention all the glorious celebrity Twitter spats.
But it's not just public figures who attract attention on the Twittersphere with their antics. Regular people regularly attract adversity too.
Take this lady for instance.
A young woman known as Saipanting is going viral after posting an alleged pregnancy announcement - and threatening to get abortion unless she got enough retweets.
4 months pregnant. 4k RTs & I won't abort it. pic.twitter.com/z9lzWPuHIn
— ???????? (@saipanting) August 23, 2017It may seem like an awful attention seeking ploy, but there were those who believed her - and expressed their concern.
why ? ever think this happened for a reason ? youre already almost half way there. you can get help & there are adoption agencies.
— rachael stanley (@rachh_stanley) August 24, 2017Then it got a whole lot murkier and confusing when the purported father of the baby got involved and expressed his shock at the pregnancy.
Not only this, but we got a glimpse into how their relationship ended.
"You told everyone I died then you sold my dog for tickets to a Lil Pump concert." So no love lost between these two - if this all indeed is true.
Then another lady manifest herself and it got even messier. It's perhaps at this point it gets a little far-fetched.
WTF NATHAN . WHAT ABOUT OUR BABY?!?!?!! pic.twitter.com/lqwrhFeqGe
— double z (@Zurizoltan) August 24, 2017In the end Saipanting got her 4000 retweets, regardless of whether she is pregnant or not.
But that doesn't erase the fact someone used pregnancy "news" as a vehicle for getting retweeted - and trivialised a topic such as abortion.