"You can write the word Twitter 20 times in an actual Twitter post, but you can only write Skittles 17 1/2 times. We don't want to call it a conspiracy, but..."
Edit: OK, so I'm going to explain the humor and the criticism here, since I'm being voted down and I actually wanted to get a point across with this comment. thomasswift's comment of "and apparently racists love skittles" rubbed me the wrong way, in that it seems to implicate Skittles in the racism by association (or even just accepts the premise that by allowing people to say anything about Skittles on their home page they were tacitly endorsing everything people say about Skittles). I thought my comment was over the top enough to be obvious. But, I'm pretty sure every satirical comment I've made in the past couple of months here has been voted down. Hackers love satire. I dunno who you humorless ninnies are, but you aint who I wanna hang out with. I'm guessing you're new around here.
I did not mean to imply if you a non-racist person that likes skittles then you are a racist, or skittle endorses racism or anything like that.
Also other people seem to notice people taking advantage of this.
>> Naturally, people are already spamming the hell out of this. One tweet being repeated over and over again unfortunately uses a racial slur. As such, I suspect this little experiment will end rather soon for Skittles. This is from a venturebeat article - http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/01/skittles-tweet-the-rainbow...
I don't usually like to comment when people downmod me, they probably had a reason, but I feel like I should try to explain this one.
My little moment of bitchery was about the humorless folks who've been voting down comic gold around these parts because it's biting. I've seen it enough lately, in my posts and others, that it feels like a pattern. And it's a pattern I don't like.
Also: you have to consider that people aren't voting you down because your humor is biting, but because it's not funny and doesn't add to the conversation.
Maybe you're rig....nah! That's not it!
Ninny.