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Here's why a Twitter account for Maine tourism gets so many notifications

Sorry, Maine.

Chloe Bryan

on November 11, 2017

Here's why a Twitter account for Maine tourism gets so many notifications

A beautiful image of a lake in Maine. Credit: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Your relatable tweets are proving to be a real headache for the state of Maine.

As The Daily Dot pointed out Saturday, one of the many ways people announce that they've found a tweet relatable is by at-replying the Twitter handle "@me." It's tongue-in-cheek -- a shorter way to say "that's me" or "it me."

The handle is also frequently used when someone says "don't @ me," but fails to put a space between "@" and "me." That space makes a world of difference, y'all. Isn't Twitter interesting?

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Using "@me" has an unintended side effect. The handle @me is actually owned by Maine.com, a website run by a man named Teddy Worcester to advertise Maine tourism.

Worcester told The Daily Dot that he receives "hundreds" of notifications per day -- and, as you might expect, quite a few of them have nothing to do with the wonders of Maine.

For example, a quick Twitter search tells us that Teddy has received a notification for all of these tweets: