Asking for your beloved's hand in marriage was never simpler -- modern-day Romeos simply fire up Twitter and tap out a few keystrokes to pop the question.
Self-described "new media douchebag" Grant Robertson did just that Thursday when he asked Christina Warren to tie the knot (screenshots above).
"i just can't wait one minute longer to ask you this. Will you marry me?," he wrote. "i want to share the rest of our lives together."
Warren's answer, which followed just 11 minutes after Robertson's initial tweet? "yes! Yes! Yes!"
Getting down on bended knee doesn't appear to be required, nor does capitalization. Just sincerity -- and brevity, thanks to the microblogging service's 140-character limit.
Urlesque blogger Lindsey Weber, who noted the exchange, was quick to point out that this it not the first such Twitter-powered proposal, and asked if the time has come to call this a trend.
"We totally get it -- and if anyone's a little internet-obsessed, it's us -- but there's still that little nagging feeling that something about this type of proposal is a little weird," Weber wrote. "Does the internet take the meaning out of things? Or have we fully entered into a new wave of romantic web-gestures? The cute factor's there so it would already fit right in among the cats and babies."
Trend or not, congratulations are in order.
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