--- title: Rudy Giuliani You Tweet Inspires Funny Responses description: Rudy Giuliani has lit up Twitter with his mysterious one-word tweet that got everybody from Soulja Boy to a police department joking. canonical: https://time.com/5352557/rudy-giuliani-twitter/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-30T12:50:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:03.917Z og:title: Rudy Giuliani Tweeted One Puzzling Word og:description: And the Internet threw a party og:url: https://time.com/5352557/rudy-giuliani-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt29f60fbe769b923f/69893699bc6cfc229e3e691d/rudygiulianiyoutweetviral.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Conference In Support Of Freedom And Democracy In Iran og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rudy Giuliani Tweeted One Puzzling Word twitter:description: And the Internet threw a party twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt29f60fbe769b923f/69893699bc6cfc229e3e691d/rudygiulianiyoutweetviral.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rudy Giuliani Tweeted One Puzzling Word and the Internet Threw a Party by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 30, 2018 12:50 PM UTC  Rudi Giuliani speaks during the Conference In Support Of Freedom and Democracy declared their support for the Iranian peoples uprising and the democratic alternative, the National Council of Resistance of Iran and called on the international community to adopt a firm policy against the mullahs regime and stand by the arisen people of Iran. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images) Rudi Giuliani speaks during the Conference In Support Of Freedom and Democracy declared their support for the Iranian peoples uprising and the democratic alternative, the National Council of Resistance of Iran and called on the international community to adopt a firm policy against the mullahs regime and stand by the arisen people of Iran. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)Anthony Devlin—Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 30, 2018 12:50 PM UTC [Rudy Giuliani’s](http://time.com/5346765/donald-trump-mueller-interview-obstruction/) puzzling “you” tweet has become a popular punchline. After the [President’s attorney](http://time.com/5265774/stephen-colbert-on-rudy-giuliani/) criticized media coverage of the tape Michael Cohen secretly recorded of Trump, he popped back online on Saturday with much less to say. “You” was the single word he tweeted. Nothing else. Many were struck by the seemingly unfinished tweet, and rose to the challenge of guessing the rest with no shortage of hilarious responses. Plenty of political commentators lit up the platform with lyrics to songs like Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” and the classic “You Are So Beautiful.” And all a Wyoming police department could hear was the hit tune of the Righteous Brothers. Even Soulja Boy chimed in with a “Crank That Soulja Boy,” referencing his 2007 hit with its prominent “you” line. Giuliani didn’t clarify the meaning of the tweet, which may or may not have been fired off in error. He only returned to Twitter to tease his appearance on CBS’s _Face The Nation_ and _Fox News Sunday_. > [](https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1023546038802677760) > [](https://twitter.com/souljaboy/status/1023613348317810688) > [](https://twitter.com/wyomingpd/status/1023701842218414080) > [](https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousNIK/status/1023678314639253506) > [](https://twitter.com/thepunningman/status/1023588231265300480) And then there was this take. > [](https://twitter.com/edballs/status/1023549645103026176) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5352557/rudy-giuliani-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5352557/rudy-giuliani-twitter/"},"headline":"Rudy Giuliani Tweeted One Puzzling Word and the Internet Threw a Party","datePublished":"2018-07-30T12:50:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:03.917Z","description":"And the Internet threw a party","url":"https://time.com/5352557/rudy-giuliani-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt29f60fbe769b923f/69893699bc6cfc229e3e691d/rudygiulianiyoutweetviral.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt29f60fbe769b923f/69893699bc6cfc229e3e691d/rudygiulianiyoutweetviral.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Conference In Support Of Freedom And Democracy In Iran","caption":"Conference In Support Of Freedom And Democracy In Iran","creditText":"Anthony Devlin—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5352557/rudy-giuliani-twitter/","name":"Rudy Giuliani Tweeted One Puzzling Word and the Internet Threw a Party"}}]}] ```