status dot net announce major upgrade
Montreal, near Canada.
Friday 18 September 2009.
Evan Prodromou took the microblogging world by storm today by announcing a major upgrade to the status.net microblogging platform.
The widely popular 'real-time' interface XMPP is now capable of sending and displaying the apostrophe character.
Major rivals in this space have had this functionality for a while and long standing, loyal XMPP fan boys claimed that all punctutation characters were supported briefly from 17 January until a Valentine's Day style massacre on February 14.
Conpsiracy theorists thought this was some elaborate hoax after leading identi.ca evangelists were dispatched around the globe in a futile hunt for the missing apostrophe characters. Michael C Harris toured Central America while Andy C was sent to search various convicts living in Western Australia.
Only today, Dan Lynch of Liverpool, has commenced a covert operation (financed by Fabian) and was flying to the West Coast, hiring a car and driving to Montreal to kidnap the extended Prodromou family, demanding the return of the missing punctuation characters and plead for the immediate release of the Unicode enabled smileys and 'emoticons'.
Evan Prodromou was unrepentant: 'Im staggered by the reaction and I really dont know whats all fuss. Weve coped perfectly fine without all those pesky apostrophes. Weve also solved all those stupid arguments about the correct use of its and its. On status dot net (that why we always spell out dot by the way, the period character won't be available until V3.1), this simply isnt an issue.'
Evan continued: 'This heralds a brave new world, real-time microblogging complete with a full punctuation set. We call it: 'Web Two Point Now'.
'And you can quote me on that.' Just remember to use AltGr 0'.
