{"id":13884,"date":"2011-01-07T02:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13884"},"modified":"2011-01-07T02:12:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:12:24","slug":"smile-with-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/07\/smile-with-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile with “\u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A couple of days ago DailyPost<\/a> suggest the following topic for a blog post: Share something that makes you smile<\/a>. \u00a0I wanted to share something, but so many things make me smile that it’s hard to choose. \u00a0Today though I came across something that made me smile, and even laugh. \u00a0It’ll take me a bit to explain, so please bear with me. \u00a0And if you choose not to, here is an entertaining\u00a0and short explanation of “bear with me” versus “bare with me”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here we go with the facts:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. It’s just after the midnight on January 7th.<\/li>\n
  2. Russia, as well as some other countries, celebrate Christmas on January 7th, and not on December 25th. \u00a0Wikipedia explains why<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. “Merry Christmas” in Russian is “\u0421 \u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, what we have right now is a lot of Russian-speaking people sending “\u0421 \u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c” via any means possible to a lot of other people. \u00a0One of those means is Twitter<\/a>. \u00a0One of many Twitter features is Trending Topics (aka TT). \u00a0This is an automatically generated list of most common phrases used across Twitter in some recent period of time (like an hour or two). \u00a0And as so many other automated features, this one has its side effects.<\/p>\n

    Firstly, it seems that it doesn’t much care for the language or alphabet. \u00a0It grabs any frequently used phrase in any language or any alphabet, puts it in the list of trending topics, and shows it to any user, no matter what his location or preferred language is.<\/p>\n

    Secondly, it seems that it tries to minimize the phrase by removing very short words. \u00a0Like those consisting of only one or two characters.<\/p>\n

    So what we have by now is “\u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c”, and not “\u0421 \u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c”. \u00a0And that phrase is a number one trending topic, shown to all Twitter users everywhere. \u00a0Here is a screenshot.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Here starts the fun. \u00a0Most people who see this, have no idea what is it all about. \u00a0Many of those, who are trying to find out get confused by incorrect spelling and by the fact that Christmas is over already for most of the world. \u00a0That I find funny.<\/p>\n

    But that’s not all. \u00a0Since the phrase went up to trending topics, \u00a0it got a lot of special attention. \u00a0Humor. \u00a0Some people started spreading rumors. \u00a0For example, that “\u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c” is the name of the new Russian nuclear bomb. \u00a0Some others started using the phrase in famous quotes. \u00a0For example, “I love the smell OF \u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c in the morning!” (original quote talks about napalm and is from the movie “Apocalypse Now”). \u00a0That I find hilarious. \u00a0You can have a look yourself at everything that has been tweeted<\/a> with this phrase.<\/p>\n

    And even that is not all. \u00a0Twitter has been known for having hard times during activity spikes. \u00a0Today is just one of such spikes. \u00a0So Twitter is unstable, falling over the edge. \u00a0And when it does so, it shows the famous Fail Whale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    This is cute and worth a smile, but there is still more to the story. \u00a0The meaning of Fail Whale varies between people. \u00a0Mashable<\/a> once published an interview with the designer<\/a> of the image. \u00a0While I know the background of this image, I can’t help a different association. \u00a0The one that Denis Lebel mentioned in the comment<\/a> to that interview – the story of the Sperm Whale from Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Universe.<\/p>\n

    It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a Sperm Whale had been called into existence, several miles above the surface of an alien planet and since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Innocent “Merry Christmas” wishes, weird Cyrillic letters shown to the whole world, rumors of nuclear war from Russian, word play with famous quotes, Twitter outages, and flying whales – I find the mix hilarious. \u00a0I hope you do too.<\/p>\n

    P.S.: To all those of you celebrating – Merry Christmas and \u0421 \u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    A couple of days ago DailyPost suggest the following topic for a blog post: Share something that makes you smile. \u00a0I wanted to share something, but so many things make me smile that it’s hard to choose. \u00a0Today though I came across something that made me smile, and even laugh. \u00a0It’ll take me a bit … Continue reading Smile with “\u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2,62,1334],"tags":[2601,2418,3141,1279,1111],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-christmas","tag-humor","tag-postaday","tag-translations","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14299,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/07\/day-in-brief\/","url_meta":{"origin":13884,"position":0},"title":"Day in brief","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Re-watched \"Basic\" first time in 6 years.Surprised that my review of it is as I'd have written it today.To the word. http:\/\/bit.ly\/es0b4Z # Is there anyone in Limassol who is fluent with BOTH #drupal and #cakephp ? 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