MANILA – Alden Richards and Maine “Yaya” Mendoza star in Eat Bulaga’s Kalyeserye titled Aldub, has just taken the crown from Pope Francis as the most tweeted topic in Philippine history.
At the rate #AlDub has been winning the hearts and attention of a global audience in the past few months, it’s really bound to happen. Unbox.ph broke the news, saying that the #ALDDUBBATTLEForACAUSE has raked in a massive 5 million tweets and still growing.
In comparison, #PapalVisitPH, the hashtag for tweets related to the Papal visit last January 2015, recorded 3.3 million, according to data from Smart Communications.
Carlo Ople, the author of the article and Managing Director & Partner at DM9 Jayme Syfu’s Digit, also mentioned that #ALDDUBBATTLEForACAUSE even reached close to 6 million tweets last weekend when the lovers finally got the chance to see each other face-to-face for the first time in the segment.
The geniuses at TAPE Inc., Eat Bulaga, and GMA, however, left fans wanting more. While Aldub got to see each other, they never actually touched after Lola Nidora, played by Wally Bayola, dropped a wall made of plywood to separate the lovers.
Will that faithful day when Richard and Yaya Dub hold hands and fall in each other’s embrace break the Twitter record once more? Your guess is as best as ours.
