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The anti-Twitter: New site requires 1,400-character MINIMUM

networkworld.com — For anyone who complains that Twitter posts are too short to be meaningful, we present you with Twitter's exact opposite: Woofer.

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  • ubernoggin, on 08/25/2009, -13/+355So instead of 140 characters of useless babble - get 1,400+ characters of useless babble instead!
  • ubernoggin, on 08/25/2009, -2/+241Excellent idea <--- 14 characters!
  • ChronicColonic, on 08/25/2009, -4/+237I am going to start a site called Twi which will have a 14 character max. If you cannot say it in 14 characters, why bother.
  • rossnyc, on 08/25/2009, -16/+195Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste Copy/Paste

    Not enough characters?

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    Probably not enough still. ***** it I'm tired.
  • Bukowsky, on 08/25/2009, -2/+122Well played sir <---- 15 characters, damnit!
  • rossnyc, on 08/25/2009, -4/+119***** the RIAA!
  • Bisquick, on 08/25/2009, -2/+116tl;dr
  • WiseWeasel, on 08/25/2009, -1/+94Look for a bunch of posts with about 140 characters of actual content, followed by 1260 characters of ASCII art to meet the posting requirement.
  • tdogg241, on 08/25/2009, -1/+82Did anyone else count to make sure it was actually 14 characters?
  • enantiodromia, on 08/25/2009, -6/+78"So instead of 140 characters of useless babble - get 1,400+ characters of useless babble instead!"

    ^^^ 96 characters of useless babble ^^^
  • 7m7uf, on 08/25/2009, -2/+68Suck It Trebek <--14 YES!

    http://www.lettercount.com/ to check!
  • jemka, on 08/25/2009, -2/+61"I am going to start a site called Twi which will have a 14 character max. If you cannot say it in 14 characters, why bother."

    Words 26
    Characters (no spaces) 99
    Characters (with spaces) 124
  • ai52487963, on 08/25/2009, -1/+59Lorem ipsum...
  • renanrrinaldi, on 08/25/2009, -2/+55I like turtles!
  • PointGiven, on 08/25/2009, -0/+51What the *****?
  • typicalusername, on 08/25/2009, -5/+49I believe we already have this don't we? /looks at wordpress & blogger
  • enantiodromia, on 08/25/2009, -0/+41ahh. now i know what the crazy homeless people at the library are doing while they sit at the Internet kiosks.
  • dystra, on 08/25/2009, -0/+39still counting
  • darkism, on 08/25/2009, -3/+41But the great thing about Twitter is that it forces the internet's verbose windbags to keep it terse!
  • inactive, on 08/25/2009, -3/+40Nickelback sux
  • dbz253, on 08/25/2009, -2/+35instead instead
  • shnuffy, on 08/25/2009, -11/+44I think 140 is too much.
  • Farmer77, on 08/25/2009, -1/+33tl;dr
  • HailfireX, on 08/25/2009, -3/+35"Follow Jon Brodkin on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jbrodkin"

    Well, that's an ironic end to the article.
  • inactive, on 08/25/2009, -1/+31department of redundancy department!
  • nutmac, on 08/25/2009, -0/+27"Twi.?.Profit!" <--- 13 characters
  • inactive, on 08/25/2009, -5/+29Nah, it's just backlash against Twitter-*****. OMG!

    Seriously, I wouldn't care about Twitter, one way or another, if it wasn't for the fact that mass media wants to hit me over the head with it. Please, feel free to be as narcissistic as you want to be. I'm just tired of hearing about it. I would love to go through life not knowing about Twitteridiots. Or Twitterots. Whatever. Morons.

    And Apple Sucks.

    Good day.
  • inactive, on 08/25/2009, -1/+25Cras tristique pharetra tellus sit amet scelerisque. Nulla eget tortor nisi. Fusce sit amet sem orci, nec adipiscing mauris. Etiam erat tellus, adipiscing tincidunt accumsan facilisis, fermentum sed mauris. Sed nisl sapien, ornare ac tempor eu, pharetra posuere urna. Aenean tempus justo sit amet ipsum varius rhoncus. Proin malesuada tempor lacus, ac vulputate risus tristique et. Fusce gravida sagittis dolor, nec commodo mauris vulputate non. Suspendisse dictum ultrices dui mattis fermentum. Vestibulum non dolor dui, nec porta lacus. Suspendisse dictum tincidunt ligula, non luctus nisl tristique rutrum. Nam diam nisi, ultricies non volutpat id, ullamcorper ac ligula. In justo quam, auctor ac malesuada nec, mattis eu metus.

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    In fringilla placerat pharetra. Phasellus aliquet adipiscing euismod. Proin at augue ut mauris imperdiet interdum et et arcu. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse id orci odio. Nulla eget neque urna. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Pellentesque quis laoreet velit. Morbi laoreet suscipit tempus. Donec posuere lobortis mollis. Nam vitae mi et ligula facilisis convallis. Quisque in mauris id lacus fermentum viverra in eget magna. Integer et quam ac arcu sagittis vehicula id vitae mi. Aliquam ornare blandit pretium. Donec id sem ante, et viverra dolor. Nunc molestie, lectus ac eleifend porta, mauris turpis mollis erat, ut lobortis dolor diam vitae nunc. Quisque risus augue, auctor eget lacinia in, rutrum eu tortor.

    Aliquam leo nisi, varius a pharetra vitae, luctus sed tellus. Aenean vel felis nec odio fermentum adipiscing vel nec velit. Phasellus vel lacus enim, congue vestibulum lorem. Vivamus rhoncus, justo nec elementum rhoncus, erat urna accumsan purus, vitae dictum dolor est in felis. Mauris malesuada faucibus rutrum. Etiam vitae nisi elit, at luctus urna. Aliquam orci metus, iaculis mattis varius non, pellentesque sed erat. Integer dictum fringilla leo non laoreet. Proin dapibus magna a felis aliquam eleifend. Integer eu leo vel enim ullamcorper blandit. Praesent venenatis pulvinar aliquet. Nam vehicula sem ut lectus mollis at mattis mi pulvinar. Aenean non nibh tellus. Praesent convallis, orci imperdiet molestie venenatis, nisi justo condimentum sapien, sit amet ultrices elit urna eu urna. Quisque dignissim, sem et tincidunt luctus, nulla risus gravida erat, eu pulvinar metus quam eget tortor. Donec interdum quam pretium diam consequat sollicitudin sed ac tortor. Vivamus condimentum aliquet quam id consequat. Donec nibh felis, tincidunt eu porta ac, venenatis ut mauris. Nam porttitor mauris id tellus mattis mollis.
  • idavidtang, on 08/25/2009, -2/+24i like turtles
  • appleofdischord, on 08/26/2009, -0/+22This would work in China. (这个使得在中国).
  • theOster, on 08/25/2009, -1/+23you mean exactly? that wo
  • NeoTEKK, on 08/25/2009, -0/+213151
  • Sleepyhead157, on 08/25/2009, -3/+21um, isn't that called blogging? Someone should come up with a site that let's you use only 25 characters. I wonder how popular that will be.
  • AndrewDB, on 08/25/2009, -0/+17 
  • maxennator, on 08/26/2009, -0/+17@DAVENPORT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
  • barney74, on 08/25/2009, -0/+17Since Twitter is a micro blogger and Woofer is the exact opposite of Twitter does that make Woofer a macro blog?
  • sotose, on 08/25/2009, -0/+16You're lucky I can't add.
  • rossnyc, on 08/25/2009, -1/+15@tdogg241 Nope
  • theOster, on 08/25/2009, -1/+15nevermind, that sucks.
  • Korberos, on 08/25/2009, -1/+15Pro-tip: nothing.

    Also, you will die alone.
  • youliveinfear, on 08/25/2009, -0/+14He could totally go post that on twitter.
  • ChileanGoD, on 08/26/2009, -1/+14cccc-combo bre
  • JoeHague, on 08/25/2009, -1/+14Good Cause I'm going to start a site where you can only use 1.4 characters. So you have to make at least 50 posts to get your point across.
    3. ????= Subsidizing from cell phone providers.
  • 4NDr01D, on 08/25/2009, -0/+13you know they just make a 2nd post then...
  • Altair27, on 08/25/2009, -0/+12the site, "woofer," also encourages its users to post updates at low frequencies.
  • bipolarruledout, on 08/25/2009, -0/+12I'm disappointed that no one posted the actual count....I mean it is digg.
  • Julie188, on 08/25/2009, -1/+12Hurray ... Twitter for the long-winded! James Joyce wannabes rejoice!
  • merreborn, on 08/25/2009, -2/+12Not really. Just a blog.

    For example, first there were SD cards. Then their were mini and micro SD cards. But we don't start calling the original ones "macro SD cards".
  • inactive, on 08/25/2009, -0/+10STFU.
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