Twitter in 2017 was a bleak treadmill of news, Trump rants and ice-cold takes. But within that unrelenting churn were a few oases of humour, wit and wisdom that shone. Here are our 15 favourite tweeters of the year.
1. Barack “nothing but respect for my President” Obama
…whose gracious response to the tragic violence in Charlottesville became the most-liked tweet ever, while Trump had the gall to say there was “blame on both sides”.
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…" pic.twitter.com/InZ58zkoAm
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017
2. Chicken Nuggets Guy
…who got a bunch of free nuggets and a Verified badge after he put out an open request for retweets and achieved the most retweeted tweet of all time.
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
3. Chrissy Teigen
…who continues to be the funniest, realest celeb on Twitter.
I ate fun dip with my fingers last night and I'm stained and Grammys are tomorrow. I've tried everything please help pic.twitter.com/Atr66KJcYo
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) February 11, 2017
4. Ryan Reynolds x Blake Lively
…who must be commended for their continued silliness.
Happy Birthday to my amazing wife. pic.twitter.com/7vulMXqOdp
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) August 26, 2017
Happy birthday, baby. pic.twitter.com/TysO4F620D
— Blake Lively (@blakelively) October 23, 2017
5. Dan Harmon
…who gave us Rick and Morty and also loads of lolzy tweets.
https://twitter.com/danharmon/status/898637516898672640?lang=en
https://twitter.com/danharmon/status/917548339075235840?lang=en
https://twitter.com/danharmon/status/927613664206532608?lang=en
6. This Corbyn captioner
10/10.
when you walk back into the sesh after throwing up pic.twitter.com/xTXyxORyYc
— the jewish pope (@bagelpicbot) June 13, 2017
7. Mindy Kaling x B.J. Novak
The Office‘s terrible two made us laugh both separately and together.
All gifs should be Stanley from The Office
— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) December 4, 2017
I'm starting to think maybe we shouldn't have built our whole country on an Indian burial ground
— B.J. Novak (@bjnovak) May 16, 2017
please give me five fucking minutes to respond to a text
— B.J. Novak (@bjnovak) December 4, 2017
8. The Good Place writer Megan Amram
…who took the piss out of Trump almost every single day. Regal.
You're telling me these people were in a CHURCH — the EPICENTER of thoughts & prayers — and they STILL weren't safe from guns?
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) November 5, 2017
Today was the day Donald trump finally became president
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) December 4, 2017
Today was the day Donald trump finally became president
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) December 5, 2017
Today was the day Donald trump finally became president
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) December 6, 2017
9. Bojack Horseman‘s Aparna Nancherla
…whose tweets made us laugh, but also think.
every time a man tells me to stop whining about feminism, i feel like saying "you first"
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) November 20, 2017
at least on any given day now you can be like well, i'm definitely doing a better job than the president
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) December 1, 2017
10. Milibae
…whose feed got at least 74 per cent more sassy this year.
What an absolutely ludicrous, incompetent, absurd, make it up as you go along, couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery bunch of jokers there are running the government at the most critical time in a generation for the country.
— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) December 5, 2017
11. Peter Crouch
…who continues to be very tall, and also funny.
Summer for me is about time with family . pic.twitter.com/dtft1CZoyl
— Peter Crouch (@petercrouch) June 19, 2017
12. Neville Southall
Inexplicably, the former Everton player is well into skeletons these days.
2 skeletons walk into bar
It was a iron bar
Never said ouch
No feelings
They were tories— Neville Southall (@NevilleSouthall) November 4, 2017
Tories new policy
Save money on burial s
Make your nans skeleton into a coffee table and your uncle into a lamp
Saving the country money— Neville Southall (@NevilleSouthall) October 3, 2017
Imagine all street signs held by skeleton s
Cannot say you never seen them
I reckon there's a a market for second Han skeleton s— Neville Southall (@NevilleSouthall) October 4, 2017
Skeleton s have arms legs and back
Make ideal chairs— Neville Southall (@NevilleSouthall) October 5, 2017
13. Limmy
…whose unique brand of misanthropy is almost heartwarming.
https://twitter.com/daftlimmy/status/783757825801584640?lang=en
14. Armando Iannucci
…almost all of whose Thick Of It mishaps came true this year.
— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) October 4, 2017
15. Pixelated Boat
…the internet’s darkest mystery comic.
Good news! Twitter has already replaced that stupid new circle character counter: pic.twitter.com/rcGRozITWh
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) November 8, 2017
Who was your favourite tweeter this year? Scroll down to leave us a comment.
