Brian Atkins, a 45 year-old telecommunications enginner from Watford, today shocked the internet community by announcing that his ham and pineapple pizza with a garlic bread accompanyment had been delivered to him successfully by Luigi’s Pizza and Kebabs, also from Watford.
Posted: Jan 15th, 2010
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Citing dwindling member activity and universally negative feedback, antisocial website keepoutofmyspace.com today announced that it was to close. The site had become known for having privacy settings permanently set to ‘piss off’, much to the annoyance of advertisers, data analysers and people hoping to discover that their ex had got fat
Posted: Jul 30th, 2009
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Twitter has launched a new service aimed the unhappy. It has identified a demographic that is can’t move on from thier lives. The website ‘Bitter’ allows users to moan, complain or slag off their friends or work colleagues in 140 characters or less without having their accounts suspended for offensive posts.
Posted: Jul 17th, 2009
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Paul Atkins, a resident of Ryde on the Isle of Wight, yesterday became the first person to be banned from the social networking site ‘Twitter’ for being far too dull. The Twitter site is an example of ‘micro blogging’ in which users post short messages in the style of mobile phone text messages throughout the day in answer to the simple question ‘What are you doing?’. It rose to prominence during the recent hotel sieges in Mumbai when eye witnesses used it to keep up a stream of reportage from the scene using their mobile phones, posting useful comments like ‘I hear gunfire’.
Mr Atkins, who has recently retired from a mid-level post in the IOW Council’s accounts department, seems to have had somewhat less exciting events to report.
Posted: Apr 6th, 2009
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A man whose life had been ruined by the social networking craze Twitter failed to end it all yesterday after he found himself unable to write a farewell message sufficiently concise to explain his reasons. Friends and associates of David Gough, 33, had been kept informed of his steady decline over the past few months, receiving regular personal updates such as ‘Now having sex with my wife. She is saying put that bloody iPhone away’ and ‘Wife has just walked out. Says I spend too much time sending bloody messages.’
Posted: Jan 30th, 2009
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