Prior to his suspension in 2020, Linehan was an active Twitter user, calling it "part of his nervous system". In 2011, he perpetrated a Twitter hoax that Osama Bin Laden was a fan of "The IT Crowd". On 13 February 2009, Linehan hosted the first BadMovieClub on Twitter. At 9pm exactly, over 2,000 Twitter users simultaneously pressed 'Play' on the film "The Happening" (dir. M. Night Shyamalan 2008) and continued to tweet whilst watching, a collective viewing experience that generated 40,000 tweets in under 2 hours. The BadMovieClub was repeated at 12 midnight on 14 February, hosted by Phill Jupitus. In August 2009, when the National Health Service was being attacked by the U.S. Republican Party during an attempt by President Barack Obama to reform the American healthcare system, Linehan created the #welovetheNHS campaign on Twitter in an attempt to fight back.