The US is witnessing its first total solar eclipse in 90 years today. The solar eclipse will run from coast to coast, stretching from Oregon to South Carolina, cutting through Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina.

Those living outside this path will only get to observe a partial solar eclipse.

While those living in the US are thronging to the streets with their special glasses to observe the total eclipse, those on Twitter too seem to have been bitten by the eclipse bug. While some are looking forward to it with glee, others are tweeting jokes about it, some are dismayed by the partial solar eclipse they saw, and quite a few are simply annoyed by all the hype around the phenomenon.

Here are some of the tweets the solar eclipse of August 21 gave us: