It's Official: Time Travellers Don't Use Twitter

[Initech]

It's the science news you've all been waiting for: Time travellers do not use Twitter.

That's according to an experiment to discover if anybody jumping between the ages has ever let word of their travels slip by referring to events which have not yet happened on social networking sites.

Spurred on by a discussion at a card game last summer, Astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff and a team of researchers based at Michigan Technological University reasoned that if future generations had found a way to go back in time, they might leave clues to their adventures on social media websites. Unfortunately, after searching for terms relating to two recent events - Pope Francis and Comet ISON - there were no references to the former. One reference to the latter was probably just a fluke.

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/06/4733113/back-to-the-future-time-travel.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Just because they won't, doesn't mean they haven't

or something

[bananas]

2. "One reference to the latter was probably just a fluke."

Do flukes use twitter? Perhaps they do!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_%28The_X-Files%29

"The Host" is the second episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files.

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Their inquiry results in the discovery of a bizarre fluke-like man—the product of the Chernobyl disaster—that soon goes on a rampage in the sewers of New Jersey.

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The Flukeman as seen in the final stages of the episode. Many critics praised the creepiness of the villain.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Allow me to say, officially

"Yuk".

Come on, man, haven't you caused enough trouble this week?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11036794

[BainsBane]

3. Twitter is sooo 2013

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Not if you have relatives or "friends" who like to send you long, drunken missives at 3 AM

Then the 148 character PM limit comes in super fuckin' handy.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Still doesn't explain how Nicolas Cage showed up in an old Civil War photo, does it? Noooo.