Election 2015: #milifandom vs the #cameronettes on Twitter
The best reaction to today's election news as two tribes go to war

Twitter's political obsession of the day is ... political fandom.
Justin Bieber has his #Beliebers, One Direction have their #Directioners and now Ed Miliband has #Milifandom - a collection of young, predominantly female supporters who have taken over the twittersphere with tweets such as:
And:
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Some Milifans seem to think that the leader of the opposition has been treated unfairly by the media:
Which, others believe, may have helped trigger the growth of his online support:
Even if it did begin as a joke, it began to have unexpected consequences:
Miliband himself was positive, even if his reaction seemed rather cautious:
In a further development the #Cameronettes soon appeared:
Unfortunately for the Prime Minister #Cameronettes wasn't always as positive a hashtag as #Milifandom:
And not everyone on Twitter quite got on board with fandom politics:
But on the bright side for the PM, it could be worse:
Election 2015: Today's best Twitter commentary
21 April
Twitter's political obsession of the day is . . . former prime minister John Major.
The last Conservative leader to win a Commons majority has spoken of the 'recipe for mayhem' of a post-election agreement between the SNP and Labour.
Some questioned our willingness to bow to his authority:
While one of Major's old foes reminded everyone of his leadership record:
It wasn't all negative though, as Daily Telegraph journalist Dan Hodges pointed out a strange contradiction in the Labour party's view of the former PM:
But Major's line of attack left creator of The Thick of It, Armando Iannucci, concerned:
Major didn't get all the limelight to himself. The Green leader Natalie Bennett held a social media Q&A, even if it wasn't quite clear who was asking the questions:
Even if some of those questions had very little to do with politics:
But what really caught Twitter's attention was a digital makeover for the previously unfancied Ed Miliband.
One can only wonder what Posh would think.
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