Frequently Asked Questions

What the hell is this?

One time, our fearless leader was sitting on the toilet when out popped the best idea EVER. What if there were a site that was pretty much exactly like Twitter, but everything that would normally be on the right side were on the left side, and instead of typing in less than or equal to 140 characters of text, you had to type in greater than 140 characters of text? What if, indeed. And so AntiTwit was born. AntiTwit is the Internet's first safe-haven from the the cancer of social isolationism, egotism and irrelevance that threatens the very fabric of our society. Or not? Think of it as an experiment in human consciousness.

More explicitly, this site is a parody of the very popular social networking site, Twitter.com. Our goal was to take core aspects of the Twitter user experience and transform them into a new and unique medium of communication. Instead of limiting our users to sound-bites and txt-msgs of 140 characters or less, we mandate that all messages contain at least that many characters. This is a deliberate barrier to entry which we hope will reduce the amount of mundane, egocentric noise which is so characteristic of social networking in general. The idea is that requiring a minimum amount of typing may encourage one to actually formulate a cohesive idea, or say nothing at all.

Woofer did it first!

Okay, we are aware that there is a site called Woofer, and maybe you heard about them first. In fact, we did it first, and we just didn't tell anyone. Seriously. And besides, Woofer sucks. I mean, who really wants to type 1400 characters of text anyway? The sweet spot is between 140 and 1400. You don't have to take my word for it. Actually you do.

How do I use AntiTwit?

Are you seriously asking that? Seriously.

Okay, there are two possibilities here. One is that we messed something up and the site is actually broken. In that case, please contact us and let us know what's going on. The other possibility is that you may be a twit, unable to understand the most simple and familiar of user interfaces. In that case, leave immediately.

HINT: your twats must be at least 140 characters long.

How is AntiTwit built?

Our engineering team (of two people) works within a home-cooked rapid development PHP framework known as A-Frame. We work on PCs and Macs, trying our best to be platform-independent. Our code and interface were created using Eclipse, Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

AntiTwit may look like Twitter, but it's all original code, and in many ways superior. From the XHTML markup, to the CSS, Javascript, application skeleton, framework, and images, AntiTwit was created entirely by us--the only exceptions being some open-source libraries and APIs that anyone is free to use.

How do you make money from AntiTwit?

We don't actually need a business model, do we? Only losers have business models. If you try to make money, that's just like selling out. Speaking of selling out, we're not for sale. Not even if you're Facebook and you want to pay us five hundred million dollars. That would simply distract us from the more important work at hand, which is to be the most thoroughly useless waste of bandwidth and investment capital in the universe until we run out of money and shut down.

What's next for AntiTwit?

We continue to follow user behavior and pay close attention to feature requests, but we can't really think about "what's next" when our existing site is such a wreck. Seriously, it seems like every minute or two there's this stupid picture of a whale. We don't know how to make it go away (we're not marine biologists), so instead of improving, we'll just continually remove features and insult the intelligence of the people that used them via our blog. We're not incompetent--you're just stupid.

Contact us

For ongoing information about AntiTwit, please read our company blog. Also, feel free to contact us with service questions, partnership proposals, or media inquiries.