Thursday, February 28, 2013

'Wow' all the way down: Donald Trump sparks Twitter's latest weird meme

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An absurdist joke is spreading across Twitter in a viral pattern. No one has control, no one is safe, and after two days, the contagion is still growing. The virus will likely hit your stream soon if it hasn't already, but it's not so easy to spot — it looks like any other normal tweet. "Wow," it reads, with a link. But click that link, and it will lead to another person's tweet. "Wow," this one says, with a link. That link leads to another tweet, from someone else. "Wow," this person says, appending a link.


It's wows all the way down.


The beauty of this game is that everyone joined in without knowing the rules. "I have no idea. I just saw it and played along," Alex Godin, a 19-year-old startup founder based in New York, said in a...


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