45-Year-Old Man Finds Online Success by Posing as a Teenage Girl
Nanami Kana (Nanamiかな) looks like a Japanese teenage girl in most of the photos she posts on Twitter, but she recently shocked her fans with photos of herself from 12 years ago in which she appeared as a bearded, overweight man. A Japanese influencer with around 35,000 Twitter followers, Nanami Kana is actually just the […]
Single Woman Creates Light Bulb Device That Turns on Whenever Someone Breaks Up on Social Media
Japanese YouTuber Marina Fujiwara managed to put a smile on the faces of single people this holiday season with a smart light bulb that lights up whenever couples break up on social media. As a single person, there is nothing worse than watching happy couples doing couple things during the winter holidays, like doing holiday […]
This Half an Onion Is on a Quest to Get More Twitter Followers Than Donald Trump
Donald Trump has one of the most popular accounts on Twitter, with over 33 million followers, but a piece if produce in a plastic zip bag wants to prove it can do even better than the President of the United States. “What if this account that is simply half an onion in a Ziploc bag […]
Australian Chicken Restaurant Has an Actual Chicken Handling Its Twitter Account
An Australian takeaway place is trying to win a Guinness World Record by having their mascot Betty become the first chicken to ever send a readable tweet! The marketing campaign is a lot like shooting in the dark – they’re letting Betty peck away randomly at a keyboard, hoping that she will accidentally tweet something meaningful by […]
Spanish Town That Runs on Twitter Shows Off the Power of Social Media
Twitter, along with countless other social media websites, is often viewed as a productivity killer. But a small town in Spain has actually been using the platform to improve communication between authorities and the people. In fact, Twitter is so important to the people of Jun that they actually built a monument of the iconic ‘blue […]
Potholes in Panama City Tweet to Authorities Until They Get Fixed
In a brilliant use of social media, a news show in Panama City gave potholes in the streets their own voices on Twitter. The crew of Telemetro Reporta installed motion-sensitive devices in craters across the city, programmed to tweet authorities every time cars ran over them, until they fixed the problem! The makers of the […]
Students Across the Country Are Brokering Deals to Get Out of Exams if They Get Enough Retweets
I never thought I’d live to see the day when Tweets could replace a student’s academic performance. But it’s actually becoming a popular trend. Teachers all over the United States are promising to cancel final exams if their students manage to get a sufficient number of retweets. I’m not sure the teachers always mean it, […]
World’s First Twitter Hotel Caters to Social Media Addicts
If you’re one of those people who can’t stop tweeting even when they are on vacation, you might find the world’s first Twitter-themed hotel, in Magaluf, Spain, to be the perfect summer destination. Ever-growing customer demands, the need for diversity and the increasing number of social media addicts all over the world have inspired Meliá Hotels […]
Twitter User Gives Modern Twist to the Nativity Story, Gains Massive Following
A Twitter user has taken on the identity of Joseph of Nazareth, to give us a perspective of what he might have been going through during the birth of Jesus Christ. The work of an anonymous tweeter from Germany has attracted thousands of followers on social networking site Twitter. He goes by the pseudonym Joseph […]
Real Birds Tweet on Twitter
A Latvian magazine thought it wasn’t fair that real twitting birds didn’t have the chance to do it on Twitter so they set up a service that allows them to share their thoughts with the world. Voldemars Dudum, the founder of BirdsOnTwitter.com, has always been a big bird lover, and while feeding them pork fat […]