Mother responding to herself on Twitter is absolute gold

Nothing much.

There are two kinds of mothers in the world -- those who tweet and those who don't. For some parents on social media, there's a bit of a steep learning curve.

Chad Doolan's mother still has much to learn.

He had a laugh when he saw that she tweeted this:

If you don't understand how truly amazing this tweet is, just wait. Doolan took to his own Twitter to explain.

Apparently his mother had responded to the automatic prompt question in Twitter's text box -- "What's happening?"

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The hilarious tweet went viral.

Mum may not have mastered Twitter just yet, but she's already the stuff of Twitter gold.

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