If you’re the kind of person who really wants to contribute to worthy causes and make the world a better place – but can’t quite muster the effort to do anything more than tap your touch screen – you’re in luck.

Slacktivitsts – this is your lucky day.

The five-day-old Twitter account Half An Onion, with a profile picture of half an onion in a plastic bag, has high aspirations.

It tweeted that it wants to get more followers than Donald Trump, who has 2.18m followers.

So far, the onion has a respectable 213,000.

And why not?

It's got the credentials:

People are really getting on board:

The onion has big plans: