Meaning of main character | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter).
   Internet, idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see main, character.

Equivalents

Examples

“With his Jill Biden essay, Joseph Epstein became Twitter’s main character this month.”

“Unless you’re in the business of receiving hate⟳ clicks for profit, you never want⟳ to be the “main character” of Twitter.”

“And while Trump, at least, now faces a reckoning over his most consequential tweets via the January 6 hearings, one final way to understand⟳ Elon Musk as our new main character is to consider⟳ the internet that has incentivized the rise⟳ of both men.”

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