Twitter is an online microblogging and social-networking service that lets users send and receive 140-character text messages called tweets. Users can subscribe to other users' tweets, which is referred to as becoming one of a user's followers. Headquartered in San Francisco, United States, the website was created on 21 March 2006 and was launched three months later, on 15 July. It has been described as "the S.M.S. of the internet".
Futurama has referenced Twitter at least three times.
References to Twitter in Futurama
- In "Attack of the Killer App", Mom advertises an eyePhone app called Twitcher, which "lets [users] send and receive short messages or videos called twits", and Fry and Bender make a bet on which of them can reach a million followers on it before the other.
- The title caption for "Cold Warriors" is "WE'RE FOLLOWING YOU, BUT NOT ON TWITTER".
- In "Do You Want Fry with That?", the Twitter-logo bird, along with Linux's mascot Tux, helps Bender with his piracy.
Additional information
Trivia
- In Bender's Game, it is revealed that Leela has a blog.
- In "Cold Warriors", it is also revealed that Leela uses Facebook.
- In "Attack of the Killer App", Fry and Bender share videos on Twitcher. In 2012, Twitter acquired an app called Vine, which lets users create and share six-second videos.
- Crew members made many revelations concerning season 7 on Twitter.
- The maximum number of characters for a tweet is the same as the number of episodes of Futurama.
Quotes
Mom: Amazing. Some dumb bastard has nearly a million other dumb bastards following his every twit!