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So you already know that Pope Benedict XVI joined Twitter yesterday.

You can ask His Holiness anything using the hashtag #AskPontifex.

Naturally, the Twitrosphere has been doing just that.

The first of (presumably) many parody accounts has also appeared.

The Pope Joins Twitter, Gets Questions About Human Centipede, McRib (Wired)

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Kieran writes:

I don’t know if you’ve been made aware yet but Twitter has opened itself up for translation into Irish, just like the system FB used about 2-3 years ago. It’d be a fantastic help if you could post it. Is mise le meas.

 

Twitter Translates

And email.

And the fax machine.

Found in the bowels of the EU broadcasting archives.

Gay Byrne introduces a new invention from a company called TextTel from Ennistymon, Co Clare, on The Late Late Show in May,1984. And uses it to send a self-deprecating proto-Tweet (3.30).

The nameless invention had been ordered by the thousand, mostly from the US, Textel’s founder Kevin Neville tells Byrne.

Anyone know what happened next?

Watch here.

Thanks Jack Jones

 

Of course they quickly deleted their tweet and issued an apology but it needs to be preserved for future generations to wonder at.

Smart.

See, the clue was in the name.

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