'Will U marry me?' Twitter helps boyfriends pop the question


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WASHINGTON D.C. — In less than 140 characters, Twitter changed the life of two couples this month.

The boyfriend of Beth Adelson, press secretary for U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., "borrowed" the senator's Twitter space for a moment Thursday to ask Adelson a very important question.

In his first tweets from the account, Wanamaker told the senator Adelson pays more attention to his feed than her own.

"Senator: your PressSecy pays more attn to this feed than her own - can I borrow this space for a minute?"

Mentioning both the senator and Adelson, Brett Wanamaker asked, "Beth Ellen Adelson, will you marry me?"

"@Brett_Wanamaker what is happening?" she responded from her account.

Wanamaker didn't leave the romance in the digital world, though. When Adelson opened her office door, Wanamaker welcomed her on the other side with flowers and a ring. Getting down on one knee, he made the engagement official.

Warner and staffers captured the proposal, showing Adelson on her knees across from Wanamaker as he puts the ring on her finger.

Another couple, this time in San Francisco, became engaged with the help of the popular social networking site earlier this month.

Jon Park, a Facebook employee, proposed to his girlfriend of more than four years, Twitter employee Genevieve Wong, in what he called a "Twitbook Proposal."

"Given that we both work in social media (her - Twitter, me - Facebook), I wanted to leverage both platforms in the proposal," Park wrote on YouTube.

He did so by having friends tweet her at the same time to watch a video. The video used photos found by Facebook's graph search of the couple to prepare her for the big question, which he asked in person once the video had finished.

Twitter proposals have been happening almost as long as Twitter has been around, though, and some don't use quite as much creative or elaborate planning as the two above.

Last December, television personality and tattoo artist Kat Von Drachenberg and DJ Joel Zimmerman or Deadmau5, became engaged after the DJ tweeted a picture of a ring with the message, "I can't wait for Christmas so.... Katherine Von Drachenberg, will you marry me?"

Possibly the first Twitter proposal occurred in March 2008, between a couple who lived in different cities and traveled a lot. They said it made sense for them.

The site was created March 2006.

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