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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Today's Headline That Made Me Fear for the Future of Humanity

So, I spent yet another long day at work, stumbled home exhausted, ate half a box of Wheat Thins, cracked open the laptop to see what the world had been up to while I was being productive, and I was greeted with this:
3% of Twitter's Servers Dedicated to Justin Bieber
Well, crap. There's a new front runner for "Headline that would've sounded most like it was in a foreign language 20 years ago." Do you have any credible-sounding quotes to penetrate the fog of disbelief that surrounds me?

From "a guy who works at Twitter":
“At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him."
The way I choose to look at this, really, is this is exactly what Twitter was designed for. It's the Andy Warhol of technology--a perfect engine for regurgitating the zeitgeist. And if all you've got is 140 characters, we shouldn't look for anybody to be summarizing Proust

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