Naomi Osaka Takes Twitter By Storm
Naomi Osaka is back home in Japan and into the second round of the Japan Women’s Open Tennis, and the 18-year-old celebrated in the best way: by joining Twitter.
This isn't as complicated as I thought… 10/10 on IGM ? (anyone who got that joke is 100.) #FirstTweet #Hashtags
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 10, 2016
Naomi famously quoted the Pokémon theme song to a room full of confused journalists earlier in the year, and she kept to the theme on Twitter, bringing all of her dry humor to 140 characters.
A nice person just gave me a map for #pokemongo ? pretty soon I'm gonna have to #pokemonstop ちずありがとう！ pic.twitter.com/u5K6ZvVb68
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 11, 2016
上野のちかく drove somewhere near #ueno Japan is so cool. pic.twitter.com/ZjL6UV20iy
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 12, 2016
Wake up the sun is shin- ohhh….wow ok nevermind -the wake up sun shining is a Naruto song but idk which one- #rain pic.twitter.com/wbup5pJaoY
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 12, 2016
Lowkey waiting for America to wake up so I can post “dank memes” lol… おなかすいた やきにくたべたい…. Hnghhhhhhh 🙁 do you guys know Yakiniku?
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 13, 2016
But quickly after posting her first few tweets, she ran into her first social media roadblock… herself.
Or, well, sort of.
When you finally passed yourself in followers lol. IDK what you guys mean by, “Are you the real Naomi?” ? conti- pic.twitter.com/kW3U9bbhCD
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 13, 2016
Turns out, there’s a long-inactive Naomi Osaka account floating around on Twitter, and now it was up to the real Naomi Osaka to defeat her Shadow Clone…
How do I even prove I'm me?How should I even…How….can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't?????? -Jaden Smith 2013 lolololol #sorry
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 13, 2016
I took a picture holding my name,but then I remembered.Never post a pic holding a sign on the Internet. #photoshop pic.twitter.com/a4bbMTrxBL
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 14, 2016
Literally this is so embarrassing. I wrote it on see-through paper so it's harder to photoshop. #dontyouguysdare ? pic.twitter.com/uBQ0es8yQa
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@NaomiOsakaWTA) September 14, 2016
Well, I think that proves it.
Welcome to Twitter, Naomi Osaka! Next step: a blue checkmark.