What Comes After Twitter? Flutter

Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has inspired millions of fans, but it has also inspired its fare share of parodies. First, Samantha Bee took on the microblogging site for the "Daily Show." She explained to Jon Stewart, who "has no f**king idea how Twitter works or why it is," that it offers insight into our most important news makers' least important thoughts and that young people love it according to old people.

Then Current's "SuperNews!" used their season premier to mock the Twittersphere, where all of the site's users float around talking about their mundane lives, communicating with "bit-sized yippidy yap," trying to become Twitterlebrities.

Now Slate has gotten in on the game with their bite-sized mockumentary about a company called Flutter that is one-upping Twitter by reducing their character count from 140 to 26. They are the leading (and only) company in the world of "nanoblogging."

WATCH:

Comments

[lilyflower8604]

LOL. I still don't get Twitter. Can't people just update their status through Facebook? What's the point?

[RonaldBradford]

Too bad the site is unavailable, taking too long to respond.

I guess they have not yet learned from Twitter's mistakes, i.e. the failed whale we are over capacity.

Or is it just a gimmick. The You Tube video about Flutter gives me that impression.

[MilesTrane21]

FAIR share, not fare share

[loki]

Fluffer

[ThirdSection]

Most useful idea yet!

[FrankFurter]

How about Blather? Seems everyone is blathering about twittering these days...

[Chris Anderson]

Turns out the actual Flutter http://flutter.freshout.us//) is Freshout's WordPress plugin that turns the WordPress backend into a full CMS - we've been getting a ton of traffic from people thinking the 26-character nanoblogging tool is an actual product, kinda hilarious and random ;)

[aspelling]

Flutter is a self-starting destructive vibration where aerodynamic forces on a wing or a control surfaces couple with a structure's natural mode of vibration to produce rapid periodic motion.
When aircraft gets into flutter it often self-destructs in seconds ;-)

[Fez]

I'm waiting for Sputter. The operative term is "spit me a sputter" and a Sputter is limited to 100 characters. When do you send a Sputter? When you are so angry and upset that all you can say is "WTF??... !@#$%... Jesus H. Christ!!... you really believe that?" I'm expecting this to be a "killer app" because people have exhausted their vocabulary and outrage over the past 8 years and have been reduced to... Sputtering.

[CoffeeBreakDMV]

I now think in 140 character space!

[VoteforPedro]

Your writers need to learn how to put a spin on it.

http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/goodbye-twitter-hello-flutter.html

[westreal]

LMAO @ the Flutter glasses. LOL

[westreal]

This is so stupid. But it's great in showing how stupid Twitter really is.

[Propagandhi]

I'm still looking for a social media network in which you express oneself stricly in binary.
1001010 :(

[JCane526]

lv ths thng!! $AT&T

[HC4BO]

Twitter ---> Flutter ---> Sputter ---> Shutter !

In that order ...

[christianhypocrites]

it's "shttr" :-)