A woman tweeted a photo of a train passenger's leg invading her space. Furious followers gave increasingly drastic suggestions on what she should do.

• A Twitter user asked for advice dealing with a train passenger invading her space.
• Hundreds responded to the viral tweet and suggested increasingly outlandish solutions.

A Twitter user posted a photo saying she was sitting on a train next to a man who was encroaching on her personal space, going viral and eliciting a wave of angry responses from other users.

On May 28, a Twitter user who goes by Neena Jha shared an image that appeared to show her sitting on a train, and a passenger to her left who had spread their legs so wide they were taking up the majority of her floor area. "UGH!! Sat next to a really selfish guy who refuses to move his leg from my space," Jha wrote alongside an angry-face emoji, and asked if it would be rude "to casually kick his leg away?!"

The tweet blew up with over 3.5 million views and 6,420 likes, as hundreds of viewers raged in a flood of quote tweets and comments about the behavior, and how best to deal with it.

The majority of users encouraged Jha to address him directly with a passive-aggressive comment, pull her tray down, or at the very least ask him to move away. Many also referred to the act as "manspreading," a colloquial term used to describe behavior in which a man takes up more than their fair share of physical space, usually on public transport.

However, some of the responses quickly became increasingly outlandish, suggesting that Jha should try faking a coughing fit, or pretend to sneeze and flick water to gross him out. Some even called for a physical approach, suggesting she should kick him back to his own side.

In a follow-up tweet Jha wrote that she ultimately stretched out her own legs and the fellow passenger "left in a huff" so she appeared to gain the two seats to herself. In a further tweet, she thanked everyone for their advice and wrote she was "so awful at speaking up & standing up for myself."

She also joked that her favorite suggestion from Twitter involved "casually pulling out one leg hair of his at a time with a pair of tweezers."

Jha received plenty of empathy from users who wrote they too had been in a similar position, trapped with a "manspreader" on a public journey, however one user also came to the partial defense of the male passenger.

"While I accept its most likely manspreading, do spare a thought for us taller men. I'm 6'6" and they reduced the legroom in trains and planes to the point that I now basically cannot fit with sitting both legs to one side or another," a Twitter user who goes by @keithgrimes wrote and received over 600 likes, although a further user responded to say they too were the same height, and felt there was "absolutely no reason" for the male passenger to do what he did.

Travel etiquette has become a popular and divisive topic online in recent months, with viewers debating how to navigate seating areas in particular.

Earlier this month, a TikToker received 6.3 million views and plenty of backlash when they filmed themselves putting their feet up on a train seat, and in April, a separate TikToker received 18.2 million views and a wave of support from viewers for how they dealt with a passenger who had taken their reserved seat.

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