More than a few people have left comments on our Twitter posts related to the Iranian situation wondering if they weren’t really articles by the satirical site, The Onion. Here are two that come to mind, Twitter Reschedules Maintenance To Allow Iranian Protests To Continue and Bush Advisor: Twitter Founders Should Get Nobel Peace Prize. Well, The Onion finally has one of its own. And as you might expect, it’s good.
The post is short, sweet and to the point. But the best parts are the fake quotes by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey:
“Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them,” said a visibly confused Dorsey.
“When I heard how Iranians were using my beloved creation for their own means—such as organizing a political movement and informing the outside world of the actions of a repressive regime—I couldn’t believe they’d ruined something so beautiful, simple, and absolutely pointless.” Dorsey said he is already working on a new website that will be so mind-numbingly useless that Iranians will not even be able to figure out how to operate it.
In all seriousness, Twitter has been proving to be an amazing tool during this crisis, but I’ll admit that the headlines here and elsewhere often do read like Onion headlines unintentionally.
the one about the cats not being old enough to learn about Jesus.
do Iranians prefer charmin or scott?
Haha, once again the Onion is spot on.
“Freshness Escaping from Bag of Peas”
Once again, I am edu-tained (educated and entertained)
Hi MG,
Thanks for informing us about The Onion. Twitter definitely proved to be an amazing tool during this Iran election crisis.
Thanks.
Mani Raj
Havoc Marketing
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I believe that’s what you call a joke.
Hey, uncool! The readers of TechCrunch are not idiots. I’ve noticed you’ve been leaving formal, meaningless comments on most of the blog posts.
You don’t actually have anything to say. Your just trying to get people to come to your site because you envy TechCrunch’s popularity.
Here’s a tip: if that is truly what you want, then at least leave meaningful, normal comments.
Thanks, have a nice day!
Uncool: you knocking a man for trying. The readers of TechCrunch are not idiots, and since we DO have the mental ability to distinguish which comments are relevant… we also have the ability to disregard them.
That being said… this article is one of the funniest things I’ve read all year. < —meaningful, normal comment.
Agree. This guy is leaving comments on every post.
Instead of building his brand, he’s just damaging it.
Honestly people there are more serious democratic issues facing the middleeast such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi than in Iran.
You are amazing at marketing.
Mani Raj for lame poster of the year.
ROTFL!!
Aww shucks, you guys did it again with that Nobel Peace Prize one. Good on you!
So, so, so, so, so, soooo TRUE!
What if Tweets couldn’t be sent without also mentioning TechCrunch
It would then be Bizarro World
I think the Mash did it better:
http://www.thed...7&Itemid=59
And some time before the Onion. Still, I love them both equally…
not very good. They forgot to mention all the pollution of the trending topics – and most of all the horrible washed out green avatars everyone has now
Quick question – why does TechCrunch even need a URL shortener? Is there a point for competing over non-dollars in this space?