Twitter Melodrama: A Play in One Act

[beccastareyes]

Twitter Preacher: “Know God... Know Peace. No God.. No Peace!”

TP's Followers: *retweet*

Twitter software: Huh, a lot of people are saying that. ::automatically picks phrases out, including 'no god':: Better put it on a trending topic.

Chorus (including various and sundry pagans, atheists, troublemakers, and various people just sick of fundamentalist Christians): Hee! Let us play with this. *tweet*

Fundies: What... hey, that's not funny, guys! Damn atheists making 'No God' a trending topic.

Chorus: Guys, you started it. We just picked up the trend and ran with it.

Fundies: *curious mix of death threats and glurge*

Chorus: *botherbotherbotherglee*

Fundies: Twitter, make them stop!

Servers: WTF, this is bad! Red alert, red alert, too much stuff going on!

No God Trending Topic: *suddenly vanishes from the top position*†

Chorus: OMG Censorship!

Fundies: HA! SUCK IT, HERETICS! (Only not, because that would be gay.)


(Sourced from here -- I expect a second act when more blogs get into this, probably within 24 hours of this post going up.)
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† Friends advanced the position that Twitter might have done this as self-preservation to keep the servers running. I submit this is about the equivalent of tossing water on a fire only to realize some wag filled it with gasoline. If there is one thing that will get internet folks up in arms, it's censorship. Heck, it would have been better just to take down the entire Trending Topics widget for a day, just as sort of an even-handed thing, or even take the server down, in hopes that folks would lose interest if you cut off the instant response.

Comments

[yuuo.insanejournal.com]

Friends advanced the position that Twitter might have done this as self-preservation to keep the servers running. I submit this is about the equivalent of tossing water on a fire only to realize some wag filled it with gasoline.

We never said it was a good self-preservation technique... just that it was possibly more that for motivation than giving in to the sniveling and whining of butthurt Fundies.

I think we have been talking to you too long. We were trying to hold onto some faith in humanity. XD

[beccastareyes.insanejournal.com]

Part of my job as a humanist is to give faith that humanity isn't as dumb* as it sometimes makes everyone think.

* Okay, I'll settle for 'dumb, but not especially malicious'. It's been a long day.