Google says hello on Twitter
Math weirdos amongst you will no doubt find this hi-lar-i-ous but I just found it remote and even a tiny bit chilling. Does the Google brand have enough personality to cut it on Twitter? I’m not sure – their binary code greeting makes 2001’s HAL computer seem well-adjusted.
These were the next four tweets:
And only half an hour ago, this news just in:
I’m not having a good relationship with Google on Twitter so far. I think something’s ‘not right’. But then you get something like this and it all seems okay again.
And here’s Yahoo’s reaction:
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According to my math weirdo colleague (who apparently can ’speak’ binary). It translates as “i’m feeling lucky”.
I kinda like it.
Gez
February 27, 2009
at 10:24 am
I was all warm and fuzzy about Yahoo earlier today because of this: http://ycorpblog.com/2009/02/26/getting-our-house-in-order/
This shoots it to bits… useless!
gavriel
February 27, 2009
at 4:41 pm
Doh, my previous comment doesn’t make sense now that I realise Yahoo actually does tweet more frequently than the one you’ve captured. I mis-read your screenshot.
gavriel
February 27, 2009
at 4:47 pm