DRIL

@dril
Two dril tweets. The account's avatar is a blurry portrait of American actor Jack Nicholson.
Other names	wint (display name)
Years active	2008–present
Known for	Absurdist tweets
Website	@dril on Twitter

@dril is a pseudonymous Twitter account best known for its idiosyncratic style of absurdist humor and non sequiturs. The account, its author, and the character associated with the tweets are all also commonly referred to as dril (the handle without the at sign) or wint (the display name), both rendered lowercase but often capitalized by others.

With more than 800,000 followers as of October 6, 2017, dril is a widely followed and influential account. dril is one of the most popular accounts associated with "Weird Twitter", a subculture on the site with a similar sense of humor. Although the identity of the account's author is not publicly known, the character or persona associated with dril—presumed to be male—is highly distinctive; poet Patricia Lockwood called dril "a master of tone" and "a master of character." His tweets are frequently satirical, and are also widely repurposed with satirical intent by others. dril began a Patreon account in 2017 so that fans could support long-term projects, including plans for two books.

Little is known about the author of the dril account. As of 2017, the author has not been publicly identified. When asked about the account's anonymity in a private Q&A, dril responded "i am an almost 30 year old man and i could not really care less about the platform i use to convey dick jokes." Prior to creating the Twitter account, the person behind dril was a poster at the Something Awful forums under the name "gigantic drill". The first dril tweet—whose text was only the single word "no"—was posted on September 15, 2008.

The @dril Twitter account then remained silent for nine months before its second tweet—"how do i get cowboy paint off a dog ."—and has posted regularly in the years since.

Jacob Bakkila, one of the writers behind the similarly absurd and popular Horse_ebooks Twitter account, claimed to have been hired for a project by the person behind dril. According to Bakkila, dril's author is a graphic designer who lives somewhere in the New York metropolitan tri-state area. John Herrman and Katie Notopoulos at BuzzFeed speculated that dril may be a collaborative project or that Bakkila himself was behind dril. Bakkila denied the rumor that he was dril, but said dril was "a friend" and that dril had contributed to the Horse_ebooks sequel, Bear Stearns Bravo.