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Tuesday 28 April 2015 4:17 am

Happy #EdBallsDay: It’s the fourth anniversary of *that* tweet

By: Catherine Neilan

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Update: Ed Balls has made everyone's Ed Balls Day the best yet. 
 
https://twitter.com/edballsmp/status/593072495395282944
 
Crack open the champagne and settle down for hours of social media lolz. It's Ed Balls Day again. Ed Balls
 
It's the fourth anniversary of what has become one of the finest tweets the political world has ever seen. Back on April 28, 2011, the shadow chancellor tweeted his own name. And things were never the same again. Ed Balls
 
https://twitter.com/edballsmp/status/63623585020915713
 
For some, #EdBallsDay is bigger than Christmas. Ed Balls
 
https://twitter.com/mrdaveturner/status/592944686580551680
 
https://twitter.com/hullodave/status/592961801555451904
 
https://twitter.com/MissLauraMarcus/status/592962515988021248
 
https://twitter.com/CorpCommsMag/status/592964858464882689
 
https://twitter.com/psmith/status/592959950021894144
 
This guy's mum has got the T-shirt. Ed Balls. 
 
https://twitter.com/lukerigg/status/592994960238055424
 
Ed Balls Day has inspired poetry. Ed Balls
 
https://twitter.com/brian_bilston/status/592965713964433408
 
Ed Balls Day has inspired advertisers. Ed Balls. 
 
https://twitter.com/HRH_Duke_of_Url/status/592935378459439104
 
Ed Balls Day has inspired cake. Ed Balls. 
 
https://twitter.com/tattooed_mummy/status/592935165741166593
 
Indeed, our humble British holiday seems to have gone global. Ed Balls
 
https://twitter.com/michele_paule/status/592963223281893376
 
https://twitter.com/GeneralBoles/status/593002441546854400
 
Even Ed Balls himself celebrates each year. Ed Balls
 
https://twitter.com/edballsmp/status/460801344958648321
 
Many just want more Ed Balls. This website turns all other pages into an Ed Ballsfest. Click on the link and follow the instructions. Ed Balls
 
http://www.casiotone.org/edballs/
 
This video pulls together three of Ed Balls' greatest moments. Ed Balls
 
https://twitter.com/MrJacHart/status/592961453172334593
 
Though inexplicably they don't include this. Ed Balls

 
Or the time he gave Northern Echo journalist Paul Merrick a bloody eye. Ed Balls
 


Not Ed Balls (Source: Getty)

Or even this moment with a tiny plastic cow. Ed Bulls. 
 


Ed Bulls (Source: Getty) 

 
Happy Ed Balls Day!!!

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