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.

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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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