Welcome to Rickrolled - Twitter Style!

Hi and welcome to Rickrolled - Twitter Style! One of the first in a great line of TweetRevs developed by Tweeting Revolution. If you've been on the internet for sometime, chances are you've been rickrolled once before, or if you've been through April Fool's day maybe you've been rickrolled hundreds of times!

Well, this site is all about rickrolling people, Twitter style! Giving you great and creative ideas for rickrolling people via twitter if for some reason you really need to... As well as other tips and advice related to being rickrolled via Twitter. Don't know what a Rickroll is? Check out the resources in the menu bar:

Rickrolled - Twitter Style Resources

A list of resources prepared for you to rickroll someone is prepared below. All you have to do is post these links and get people rickrolled! They have already been disguised for your rickrolling pleasure. Have fun! =)

You got Rickrolled! http://bit.ly/1aBovH

You got Barackrolled! http://bit.ly/Whm6o

How to Rickroll Someone - Twitter Style (Part 3)

Part Three of our series here on how to rickroll someone - Twitter style. This part of our series shows you a way to rickroll someone on Twitter using your tweets but is in a different way from in Part One.

In Part One you just included a cleverly disguised link which would lead your friends to getting rickrolled when they clicked on it. Here, you rickroll your friends directly, but singing out the lyrics to Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" as shown below:

A simple yet effective method for rickrolling someone on Twitter! In order to do this, however, you need to know the lyrics to "Never Gonna Give You Up", and we have prepared this for you in the "Rickrolled Lyrics" section.

Well, I hope you enjoy this tutorial of how to rickroll someone on Twitter. If you have any comments or suggestions, ro clever ideas of how to rickroll someone, please share it with us in the comments box below.

How to Rickroll Someone - Twitter Style (Part 2)

Part Two in a series of getting people rickrolled via Twitter. Twitter is an ideal medium for rickrolling your friends and acquantainces. This part of the series of how to rickroll someone using Twitter is about putting it in the description area or the bio area of your profile.

If you go to your settings area which is on the top right corner of your Twitter account:

You will be able to edit your description area of your profile. There is a box which allows you to fill in your more info URL as shown:


Put your rickroll link here to get your friends and other people rickrolled! You might not want to keep it there for too long though... It will appear in your profile as shown below:

That concludes part of our series on how to rickroll someone using Twitter. For more ways to rickroll someone, visit Part Three of our tutorial.

How to Rickroll Someone - Twitter Style (Part 1)

Part One in a series of how to rickroll someone using Twitter. Rickrolling someone using Twitter is a very simple method of rickrolling but it can have strong results. The easiest way to do this is to send out a simple tweet with a disguised link, like shown in the picture below:



As you can see, Twitter will automatically shorten your URL and disguise it for you, so people have no idea that they're going to get rickrolled. Cool right? But if you click on the link, you're in for a surprise.

And also, putting your URL in your tweets is an easy way to get your rickroll link across to all your friends or acquaintances all at once. This is one way to rickroll someone on Twitter. Visit Part Two to read about more ways you can do this.

Rickroll by Phone - Twitter Style

This section shows you how to take advantage of the various ways in which you can get a person to be rickrolled by phone. To rickroll by phone a person on Twitter is made easier with a number of different moves. You can get a rickroll number from various websites. One of them is rickrolled.com which has a special number that if you call, you will get rickrolled. The number is 1-985-655-2500.

Some examples of how to use this are given below:

1. Put the phone number in your description area


Putting the phone number in the Twitter description or bio area of your Twitter profile is an easy way for it to get noticed or for people to call it. Of course, you might want to be a bit more clever so that people won't be able to guess that they're going to get rickrolled.

2. Put it in your tweets

Include the phone number in your tweets, but be careful that people don't get suspicious about it.

3. Send a direct message

Rickroll by phone through a direct message sent to one of your friends!

Rickroll by Phone - Overview

The internet phenomena of getting rickrolled started with the passing of cleverly disguised links to get people to click onto a link which led to a video of Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". However, in recent time, rickrolling has evolved into various forms, including one where you can rickroll by phone. There are two general things that come to mind when talking about rickroll by phone:

1. Getting people to call a number which gets them rickrolled by phone

There are various websites on the internet that give you phone numbers for calling. If you get people to call those phone numbers, they'll get rickrolled!

*Warning* A rickroll by phone may or may not have terms and conditions behind it leading to the charging for a substantial amount of money. Make sure you carefully read the terms and conditions first. You wouldn't want you or your friends to lose a lot of money all because of a prank gone wrong...

2. Rickrolling someone who calls you

This is normally done by suddenly playing the music from "Never Gonna Give You Up" into the receiver of the person whom you are talking to . Most effective on telemarketers.

3. Rickroll by Phone - Twitter Style

You can also rickroll a person by phone using Twitter as a medium to help you. This is discussed more in the section Rickroll by Phone - Twitter Style

Rickroll Video Variations

The main rickroll video is one with Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up", but various different rickroll video variation are available on the net. You may or may not have been rickrolled by one or more of these variations in the past. The rickroll video variations that are available involve the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" bring used in different scenarios and sung by different people.

The original "Never Gonna Give You Up" is the one shown below:



One of the popular variations of the rickroll video is the Barack-roll, and if you get hit by this, it is said that you have been Barack-rolled! The video is shown below:

Rickroll Someone in Different Ways

To rickroll someone is commonly accepted to be tricking a person into clicking on a link which sends them to a playing video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". The creator who made the rickroll may or may not have traps in place to stop the person from leaving the page or stopping the video. However, it is advised that you do not try to lay such blockage traps as you could very possibly get 'blasted' by your colleagues (Not kidding!).

Apart from the standard rickroll, there are also several other ways of rickrolling a person, all of which require some level of finesse, artistic creativity, and cunningness:

1. Rickroll Somone Live

The process of rickrolling a person 'live' is one which possibly requires some courage, as well as a good acceptable singing voice so they can make out what you're singing about. It involves you taking down or memorizing the lyrics to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", and then belting it out live to your victim, face to face. This is a no-holds, no rules, method which will shock even the hardest colleagues.

Possible ideas for inclusion include setting up speakers to play the music from "Never Gonna Give You Up", while dancing around in a trench coat.

2. Rickroll Someone by Phone

The process of rickrolling someone by phone has recently emerged, and it involves you getting someone to call a number where they will be exposed to the music from Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", to their shock and horror. You can get the number for this from Rickrolled.com.

Alternatively, when people call you, you might want to suddenly play the music into the telephone speaker for them to listen to. And they get rickrolled...

3. Rickroll Someone by Twitter

Getting someone to be rickrolled through Twitter is what this website is about. Find out more tips and tricks for rickrolling someone through Twitter from the menu below: