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.

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