Twitter gets $100m injection

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[Destroy All Monsters]

It took me fully 20 seconds...

....staring in incomprehension at the screen until I got the joke.

AM I GETTING OLD? AM I??

[Anonymous Coward]

@Destroy All Monsters

..there was a joke?

NO IT'S TOO LATE FOR ME NOW ;_;

[Chris iverson]

Very nice

I appreciate the screenshots that sell the whole idea. Now I always thought that El Reg's articles are a touch short but Diablo be damned if that isn't a touch too short.

And brown pants....what shoes are going with it?

[Unlimited]

eh?

A screenshot of a website containing text that is the story is published on a news site.

For completeness, you should probably have printed the screenshot, put it on a wooden table, taken a photo of it and then scanned it and published that.

The Fail is either for the Reg for this 'article' or for me failing to comprehend the point.

[Anonymous Coward]

You've got the entries in the wrong order.

So two minutes ago RegisterHack tweets about his pants, ten seconds ago he tweets about his sandwich, then five seconds after that he says, apropos of completely nothing, "$100m seems like a lot to invest..." and goes on to twitter an entire article with all the sentences in the wrong order?

Technically it may be Friday, but you shouldn't be drunk yet!

[Martin Nicholls]

Back to the future

It's like 2000 again, only worse..

Have they released a new revision of The Cluetrain Manifesto or something?

Somebody should hit these guys with a cluebat.

[Reverend Brown]

@ eh?

I don't think I want to see my two favorite IT reads merge into one massive boat of failure and booze.

Booze, because.

[Anonymous Coward]

@Destroy All Monsters

No, you weren't the only one.

But once I got it, it cost a couple of tissues for the computer screen.

Genius. Pure genius

[Raumkraut]

Fake screenshot fail

The posting times are in the wrong order.

[Anonymous Coward]

@Unlimited

I think its you.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Unlimited

It is ironic how many DailyWTF readers seem to have no sense of humo(u)r whatsoever.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh come on

I'm sure it seemed a good idea in thwe pub last night. A "you had to be there" moment.

Ok ... just rubbish

[Anonymous Coward]

oh i get it

It's a stealth "lets test the water to see if we can have a twiiter feed like every other news source" gambit.

And sandals with brown pants surely. and green socks

[Anonymous Coward]

@Unlimited

You fail very very much Mr. Unlimited

[P 8]

@Unlimited

Fail for you my dear friend as you have completely misunderstood the article! :)

Grenade? Because you're a loose cannon in the comments!

[The Mole 1]

I'm confused...

Trousers or underwear?

[Anonymous Coward]

@ Unlimited

The fail is definitely you

[Gannon (J.) Dick]

Hungry

something about pastrami. eat now.

[Jez Caudle]

If some one needs to explain the joke ...

... then they don't get it.

I need someone to explain the joke.

[Ian Ferguson]

I'm confused

I read that in the wrong order.

[Andrew_F]

Huh?

Would someone who gets a joke please explain? Why would Twitter getting $100m be a brown-trousers moment?

I'm baffled, and the arse-about-face structure of Twitter feeds doesn't help.

[Chris Bradshaw]

But where is the complete experience...

What are you drinking with the sandwich, and which mustard is on it? No link to a video of the chewing process, not even a pic of the sandwich.

This is the naughties, it's Web 2.0 now, you've got to improve the experience for all of us if you expect us twitterees to buy in...

[Hayden Clark]

Lawsuit!

The investors who put up the money for the fund need to sue the managers for incompetence. After giving them a good going-over in an alley. A mutual fund, in particular, has no right to piss the member's money away just for dot-com bragging rights.

@unlimited

Oh, and for real Web2.0 cred, not only do you print out the screen shot and photograph it, but you post it on Flickr!

[Sarah Bee]

Re: Huh?

It's not a 'brown trousers moment'. It's just that the reporter decided to wear brown trousers, and put it on Twitter because you tell Twitter what trousers you are wearing because that is the nature of Twitter.

Bee: Sitting at my desk drinking water. I think I'll put the fan on.

And so forth.

[Anonymous Coward]

Friday morning...

....and I am reading the comments on The Register.

[Rob]

@Sarah

"Bee: Sitting at my desk drinking water. I think I'll put the fan on."

Stop baiting us, you know what us lot are like, half now have an image of you of film notoriety in front of a fan hair blowing in slow motion ;)

@Unlimited - you should start going to bed earlier, that late in the evening obviously makes you a v.grumpy person.

[BPM]

BPM

Love it. Laughed out loud.

[BPM]

Gee thanks

Laughed so hard I splurted coffee all over the keyboard.

[Mike Flugennock]

d'ahh, c'mon; what's not to get?

Here we are, a good decade or so after the phony dot-com boom. We read a news report noting that some cockamamie VC outfit has just thrown a hundred mil at a useless-assed Internet "company". We're so amazed that we crap our pants, which is where the "brown trousers" comment comes in. I mean, how tough can that be to understand?

As far as the shoes... I can't speak from authority myself, but according to Frank Zappa, "brown shoes don't make it".

[Richard IV]

Disgraceful!

I for one am clinging to the delicious future moment when Twitter changes its logo to read Twitter from C**ts and all the Twitterati start moaning about how C**ts are ruining what used to be a perfectly crap service.

[Nemesii]

Oh my god

Congratulations half of you for not getting it AT ALL.

Good article :)