Chaos Program

I ran across an interesting internet hoax yesterday. Apparently, a number of people believed the announcement that Twitter was going to start offering special accounts – for a fee – that would allow both more than the usual 140 character limit on posts and would, apparently, randomly force people to follow these special pay accounts. (For the record, no, I’m not one of the people who fell for it. Really. You believe me don’t you?). See Twitterville Falls For Premium Accounts Hoax for more information.

Poor Twitter. People are making fun of their business model just because they don’t have one!

Let’s just take it as stipulated that Twitter is cool. That’s one of the reasons it gets targeted for silly jokes like that. If you don’t even know what Twitter is, you’re not cool. Sorry. That’s life. Look at The Infection Meme and Twitter to broaden your education. More importantly, it sometimes has value, though not always where you think. And I don’t just mean this: Ohio Cops Use Twitter to Talk to Residents.

One feature of Twitter (apparently not entirely planned by the creators) is the ability to tag posts for subject matter and search on those tags, so that you see what the whole world is saying about a subject, not just the people you personally follow. During the final episode of Battlestar Galactica I posted several items with the tag #BSG, to show that I was talking about BSG. See how it works?
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