If Prime Minister Tony Abbott was as popular as the #ImStickingWithTony hashtag on Twitter he would not be staring down a spill motion on Monday.

The #ImStickingWithTony hashtag began trending at number one in Australia on Twitter at the weekend and has stayed there as tens of thousands of Australians here and overseas express support for Mr Abbott or gleefully use the hashtag to mock his policies and statements.

Topsy, which tracks trends on Twitter, showed from Saturday there had been 63,000 uses of #ImStickingWithTony on Twitter.

Among them: