There was an article up on TechCrunch on Saturday breathlessly pointing out that some Japanese guy had created a 2,130 character tweet. Of course, Twitter has a 140 character limit, so this was BIG NEWS.
So now, thanks to this dude there’s a twitter window you can visit called yourtext allowing you to paste in whatever you want and issue it as a tweet regardless of length. It seems that people are for some reason excited about this exploit in Twitter’s url shortening code.
Why exactly is this exciting? First off, while I use Twitter, I don’t go insane over the damn thing. Beyond that, what precisely has this guy done? He’s turned Twitter in to a blogging application. That’s it. Nothing more than that.
This idiot spent who knows how much time sifting through app routines to find a way to convert Twitter in to something that would let him post items of any length for others to read. He did all of this rather than, say…
JUST GETTING A FUCKING BLOG.
Why is this person being lauded? Hell, why is this twit being mentioned at all without the headline “Japanese man wastes his own time to nearly impressive degree”? Congratulations, numbnuts…you’ve converted an application in to something that’s already covered by dozens and dozens of other programs. You have accomplished nothing.
Though maybe he should get slight kudos for doing something geeky that doesn’t involve Japan’s creepy schoolgirl violation fixation.
Seriously, why is this jackass given any mention for finding a ridiculously convoluted way to accomplish something he could have done much more simply? It would be like figuring out how to overload a cell phone battery in a specific way to produce puffs of smoke for smoke signal communication…who gives a shit? Just talk in to the damn thing! Then again, I feel the same way about people who rack up massive bills texting…from a cell phone. Yes, because typing messages with your thumbs on a phone keypad is SOOOO much better than just using the phone part to do that verbal communication stuff.
Why do we find bizarrely obtuse ways to use technology? And why isn’t someone punching this dude in the face right now?




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