Mark Hamill tweets his own name, gets half a million likes
The Star Wars actor's fans hang on his every word.
Mark Hamill is undoubtedly smiling about the loyalty of his Twitter followers.
Star Wars legend Mark Hamill decided to test how strong the Force was with his Twitter stardom Sunday after a fan suggested he could get thousands of likes just by tweeting his own name. The actor, who's best known for playing Luke Skywalker, exceeded expectations by getting more than half a million likes and over 30,000 retweets as of early Monday.
Hamill has 4.7 million followers on the social media platform, and a bunch of them are apparently happy to support his experiments.
Mark Hamill https://t.co/5OF3tfGMPx
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 5, 2021
The actor played the Jedi Master in two Star Wars movie trilogies but was most recently seen in the season 2 finale of Disney Plus spinoff show The Mandalorian. Hamill was digitally de-aged for his appearance in that episode, and a documentary looking at that process hit Disney's streaming service last month.
Hamill wasn't the only one trying to capitalize on his popularity -- George Takei, who played Sulu in Star Trek, quote-tweeted Hamill's post and wrote: "Mark Hamill. And now we wait."
Takei's tweet had more than 38,000 likes and 1,300 retweets as of Monday morning.