David Cameron's self-promoting selfie about calling up Barack Obama on the crisis in Ukraine was ridiculed on Twitter, as users began posting their own versions of the snap.
Actor Patrick Stewart also took a snap of himself joking that he has also patched himself in on the phone call, as he held a wet wipe bottle to his ear, while comedian Rob Delaney took a pic of himself holding toothpaste tube to his ear and joked about being on the line as well, the Daily Star reported.
Other users also joined in on the trend to started posting pics with the hashtags #davecalls and #tweetlikecameron by holding things like staplers, icecream cones, pets to their ears.
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