Twitter ported to Commodore 64 - Facebook missing out on large market

Twitter on Commodore 64Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, officially crapped his pants when it was announced that Johan Van den Brande had ported the popular social networking tool Twitter to the widely used Commodore 64 platform. The Commodore 64 is known for being popular with white males between the ages of 30 and 40. This is a demographic that advertisers have been clamoring to target on social networking sites, but they have tended to stay away from sites such as MySpace and Facebook as they do not support their preferred computing platform, the Commodore 64. The reason for the lack of ports is that progamming for the Commodore 64 generally requires knowledge of COBOL or FORTRAN, programming languages that are similar to Old English in that the only people that can understand them died roughly 900 years ago.

Twitter CEO Evan Williams telling Mark Zuckerberg to, "suck it"Thankfully for Commodore 64 users the world over, Johan Van den Brande became determined to write a Twitter application after appreciating the full capabilities of the platform. You may be asking yourself how Johan could write a port of Twitter for the Commodore 64 if no one knows how to write COBOL or FORTRAN code. Well, Johan doesn't write code in COBOL or FORTRAN, he uses magic. Since there haven't been any new applications written for the Commodore 64 in over 15 years, it is expected that Johan's port of Twitter will gain 90% marketshare on the Commodore by the end of the week.

This is a huge blow to Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook, and Twitter has been quick to pounce on the news. Twitter CEO Evan Williams was quick to note on his blog, "ahahahahaha! Suck on that Suckerberg!" We attempted to contact Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg, but all we got was a voicemail with crying and blowing noses.

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Comments

[Andy]

As a white male between the ages 30 and 40, I'd like to express anger at this intentionally hurtful and negative stereotype.

...even if it happens to be completely true.

I miss my C64.

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Hi, Where can i buy a refurbished commodore 64? i know that it's old but i like the vintage computer items. any help plz..

[Rob Steenwyk]

eBay would probably be your best bet, or perhaps scour Craigslist.

[Smart Boy]

Great to see Twitter expanding to new markets. Wondering what the future might hold. It's also exciting to see Twitter on such a vintage system! New technology and communication meets old...

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Wondering what the future might hold. It's also exciting to see Twitter on such a vintage system! Great job, if it weren't for you I wouldnt have knwon of it !

[Baby Slings]

The reason for the lack of ports is that progamming for the Commodore 64 generally requires knowledge of several different computer languages that makes it difficult to find a definite outcome

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Comedy is not your forte. Don't quit your day job.

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