Yesterday, we decided to trend Choi Siwon for his “on-paper-only” birthday. We used the term “on-paper-only” because February 10th, 1987 is when his parents registered him on. We wanted to save the unique hashtag for his real birthday, which is on April 7th. It might seem redundant, but we had to go with the majority, which was to “TREND BOTH”.

To our surprise, some important events actually occured in conjunction of this. It might be just his “fake” birthday yesterday.. BUT Siwon thanked his fans for the birthday wishes.. the US Citizens got over excited and mentioned Choi Siwon TWICE on their tweets, pushing “Choi Siwon Choi Siwon” to the top of the list.. and a well-known UK media “The Independent” mentioned Choi Siwon being one of the trending topics in one of their articles, as quoted below:

The ‘now playing’ hashtag has retaken the top position in the list of trending topics on Twitter on February 10 at 9:30 AM GMT.

Members of Korean boy bands are a popular topic of conversation on Twitter. This morning people are sending out birthday wishes to Super Junior member Choi Si-won. The singer and actor is celebrating his 23rd birthday on February 10.

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Even though it is impossible to expect the mention of yesterday being his “on-paper-only” birthday, it was definitely more than enough for us. Well, actually hoping they would be kind enough to mention us (TwELFs) as the trend initiator but…. of course it’s hard for them to track back.. or for anyone else for that matter. Ever since we got bigger, no one would even bother to credit us.. so we’re kinda get used to it. ^^

For the record, we trended him for 7 HOURS and Choi Siwon broke #sorrysorry record on “Fastest Appearance” category. Well done everyone…

Thank you to other Super Junior fanbases who supported us in this project.. @sjunitedph, @3rdchapter, @sujunesia, @hatobrazil, @sapphirepearls, @polarelle, @forsujuindo.. as well as other fandoms: @onetvxqforums, @sfinee, @BBVIPForum, @KaraTweetholic, @rocketboxx, @DBSKnights, @weareshining, @EmpireChildren, @taeyang_heaven and many more..

Special thanks to our partner, YesStyle for joining the project.

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TwELFs.com