NICK POPE is Twitter’s No 1 after Newcastle fans invaded a Burger King poll.
The fast food chain asked their 107,000 followers whether they preferred tomatoes or gherkins.
And Magpies supporters, led by popular account ‘Toon Polls’, piled into the comments with the same bizarre reply: Nick Pope.
Burger King then tweeted the England goalkeeper’s name and it soon snowballed.
And that led to Pope overtaking Joan of Arc as the UK’s top trend.
Walkers, Deliveroo, Domino’s, Specsavers, Quality Street and Dreams all followed suit.
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Newcastle travel to Brighton tomorrow, with the 30-year-old to start his second game for the Mags since joining from Burnley.
And McDonald’s tweeted: “Okay…if Nick Pope keeps a clean sheet tomorrow, we’ll send Toon Polls a maccies breakfast next week, deal?”
The Toon Polls admin said: “So a few week back, I juiced a poll to get Pope to beat (Erling) Haaland as best signing
“So now just getting people to reply to a random poll saying he’s better than a tomato and a gherkin.”
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Newcastle supporters loved it too, with one tweeting: “So @ToonPolls has hijacked a straightforward Burger King tweet with the words ‘Nick Pope’ and now it’s trending number one on Twitter and being tweeted by McDonald’s, Specsavers and loads more.
“Football twitter is incredible sometimes.”
Another said: “I can’t believe what I’m seeing. The Twitter-verse has gone Nick Pope mad!”
While a fellow fan tweeted: “A Newcastle twitter account got Newcastle fans to tweet Nick pope on a Burger King post. NUFC twitter is unmatched>”
As another added: “Toon polls said ‘Nick Pope’ under a Burger King poll and now he’s an internet sensation.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
