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| Woman marries Twitter bookshop crush | |
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| A couple who met over Twitter have found their marriage is now trending on the social media site. | A couple who met over Twitter have found their marriage is now trending on the social media site. |
| Victoria and Jonathan O'Brien got together after Victoria took a shine to the person behind the tweets for a Waterstones bookshop account and got in touch. | Victoria and Jonathan O'Brien got together after Victoria took a shine to the person behind the tweets for a Waterstones bookshop account and got in touch. |
| Mr O'Brien, the man behind the posts, had built up a following with his humorous tweets for the store. | Mr O'Brien, the man behind the posts, had built up a following with his humorous tweets for the store. |
| His new bride says she was dared by a friend to get a date. | His new bride says she was dared by a friend to get a date. |
| "It took a couple of months - Jonathan ignored my first tweet but the second had a typo and he picked up on that," she said. | "It took a couple of months - Jonathan ignored my first tweet but the second had a typo and he picked up on that," she said. |
| Online interest built when, on Sunday evening, Victoria tweeted a photograph of her original 2012 message declaring her love for the @WstonesOxfordSt account manager, alongside a "just married" photo, and the famous line from Jane Eyre: "Dear reader, I married him". | Online interest built when, on Sunday evening, Victoria tweeted a photograph of her original 2012 message declaring her love for the @WstonesOxfordSt account manager, alongside a "just married" photo, and the famous line from Jane Eyre: "Dear reader, I married him". |
| The couple, from London, have since been contacted by people from all over the world. The new Ms O'Brien says the whole thing is "crazy" and "overwhelming". | The couple, from London, have since been contacted by people from all over the world. The new Ms O'Brien says the whole thing is "crazy" and "overwhelming". |
| And what does her husband have to say? | And what does her husband have to say? |
| "The response to this has been astounding. Thanks, the internet. | "The response to this has been astounding. Thanks, the internet. |
| "And Twitter, we guess". | "And Twitter, we guess". |