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While their story seems to have began in 2019, it all actually started in 2013, when Halsey was "thirst-tweeting" about the man who later became her boyfriend. "I just want cookies and Evan Peters," she wrote on October 26.

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Along with saying that she was in love with him and was whipped for him, she also tweeted, "Petition for Evan Peters to date me." Six years later, we suppose she got enough signatures! The relationship lasted almost two years. They called it quits in March 2020.

▲Turner said they'd had mutual friends who wanted to introduce them but had never actually met in person. "We were following each other on Instagram and he direct-messaged me one fine day, out of the blue."

▲'American Horror Story' actress Sarah Paulson had met fellow actress Holland Taylor years ago, when they were both in different relationships. They reunited, however, through Twitter.

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The pop star and the actor first made their relationship public in October 2019, at a Halloween party dressed as Sonny and Cher, no less. They seemed perfect for each other, but many don't realize their meeting had not been a coincidence...

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In a 2019 interview on 'Watch What Happens Live,' Paulson said she and Taylor "breezed by each other" during an event years ago, sparking their social media messaging.

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Fellow guest Billy Eichner said what we were all thinking: "Holland Taylor slid into your DMs?!" To which Paulson replied, "She actually did!"

▲The 'Game of Thrones' actress told Harper's Bazaar UK that she initially met her husband after he sent her a private message on Instagram.

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Even though Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas finalized their divorce in 2023, no one can deny that their relationship began in a romantic way, and that their story will always be something for their fans to remember.

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Adams responded with some flirty tweets, then messaged her saying, "Next time I'm in LA, I'm taking you out for drinks and tacos." The pair got married in August 2022.

▲But that was several months after Hyland had been tweeting about Adams on 'The Bachelorette,' in 2016. "Ugh! @WellsAdams making a Lord of the Flies reference on men tell all???" adding that she knew he was the best from the start, and that men who read are hot.

▲The 'This Is Us' actress was a big a fan of indie rock band Dawes (led by Taylor Goldsmith) back in 2015, and she posted a picture of their album and wrote, "Real excited about this one. Have a feeling it's going to be the soundtrack of my summer."

▲At the time, she was going through her divorce from Ryan Adams, but as Moore told People, "Somehow, Taylor saw it and sent a note to me ... Thanks Instagram, for helping me meet my fiancé!"

▲In 2018, Ricky Martin told Andy Cohen that he met his husband Jwan Yosef on Instagram, after he came across pictures of Yosef's artwork on his feed.

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He was taken by the art, but it was when he searched for the man behind the brush, "and I'm like: 'Ooh, oooh.' And then I wrote to him," Martin explained.

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Their relationship also relied heavily on tech, as Dawes was on tour. "We spent hours FaceTiming each other," Moore told People. "We fell in love before we'd even really held hands or kissed or anything. It was great."

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They took things slow, reportedly communicating through Instagram messages for six months before meeting. "We talked about art—nothing sexy...I swear, nothing sexy. It was all about art and life in general." They're now raising four kids together.

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By 2017, the two were dating! Ask and you shall receive? Unfortunately, they broke up in August 2019.

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With some mutual friends, they added each other. They kept in touch, and soon their online chatting led to a real-life relationship that ended in 2020.

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Swedish singer Zara Larsson famously tweeted photos of model Brian Whittaker in 2015, and wrote: "Who are you, where do you live, how old are you, why are you so fine, how do you like your eggs cooked in the morning?"

▲Petsch reportedly first spoke to Mills, co-host of MTV's 'Ghosted: Love Gone Missing,' in January 2017, after he sent her a message on Facebook congratulating her on her role in 'Riverdale.'

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The artists first got in touch on Twitter before starting a year-long relationship, but their breakup also played out on social media.

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Iggy Azalea and her former fiancé, NBA player Nick Young, began dating in 2013 after some Twitter talk. "We tweeted a couple of times and then we met up," she told Metro in 2014. "It's not desperate, it's about admiring."

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Rivera later revealed that she had started following him on Twitter first, and mentioned she was a fan. His assistant happened to be a fan of 'Glee,' and alerted the rapper about her. Big Sean then made his move, but unfortunately they didn't last.

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After Wiz Khalifa named Amber Rose as his celebrity crush in an interview, the model directly contacted him via Twitter.

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The rapper slid into the actress' Twitter DMs, and it led to an engagement!

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They had worked on the song 'I Will Never Let You Down' together, but Harris allegedly didn't let Ora perform it at the Teen Choice Awards, though he tweeted there were two sides to the story.

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They eventually got married and had a child, though they are now divorced.

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The singer met YouTube star Jai Brooks after he tweeted at her and made a video explaining why she should date him. They reportedly dated on-and-off for two years.

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Musk was reportedly planning to make a joke combining the Roko's Basilisk thought experiment and the 18th-century Rococo style, but found that Grimes had already beat him to the Rococo Basilisk punch three years earlier. The two flirt-tweeted, had an on-again, off-again relationship for around four years, and had two kids. Eventually, the couple officially split in 2022.

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Before the surprising pair made their debut at the 2018 Met Gala, they had connected on Twitter about an artificial intelligence joke that it seems only they would find amusing.

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In a 2018 interview on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!', the 'Modern Family' actress explained how her 'Bachelorette' alum boyfriend asked her out on Twitter: "He slid into my DMs."

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Dating has certainly come a long way from old forms of courtship, both for the better and for the worse. The times are currently calling for online dating, with an app or website available for every kind of preference, all in the effort to find romance.

But romance can be found online without using a service, with something almost everyone already has: social media. It's kind of like walking up to someone and sliding them your number, except it's completely different. There are actually a lot of celebrities who have found love on social media, whether they slid into someone's DMs (direct messages), or used their platform to proclaim their admiration for that special someone.

Click through this gallery to see which celebrity relationships started online.