A Year of Fail (part 1)

Happy Birthday, Fail Bird!

The Fail Bird was born one year ago, today. Over this past year, we’ve seen twitter explode as celebrities took notice, watched as the porn, spam and script-kiddies climbed on board, and despite all that, made some friends, learned a few things, and had a jolly good time reporting on all of it.

To celebrate this rotation around the sun, we’re going to share some of our more memorable moments of the past year.

March 2009 brought us @iamryaann, who revealed a bit more in his avatar that we would have liked. It didn’t take long for twitter to take notice and kick him out of the pool, but just like Ethel, we’d already been incensed.

In April, we sighted the first twitter account for sale on Amazon. Ah, those were the good old days, when 1000 followers meant something.

@aplusk reached one million followers that month, which started the tidal wave of celebrities on twitter. @Oprah jumped in, got a zillion followers in a couple of days, and left them hanging.

We can’t leave April without mentioning we did our part for National Cleavage Day. Any reason to party is good enough for us.

May brought Tweeple magazine which promised to bring news of celebrities on twitter. Naturally, the big guys don’t like it when someone else has a good idea, and it was squashed like a bug by Time Warner. So, people continued to be ignored by the celebrities they talked to on twitter. Also in May: one of our most popular posts, ever, featuring a fat, naked jew.

We begged Steven Seagal to not kick our ass in June. So far, he’s left us alone. We’ve seen his tv show; we could probably outrun him, but we’re not taking chances. We’re actually pretty good at hurting ourselves, so maybe he just thought we were too pathetic to kill.

Affiliate marketers joined twitter in droves, so it was only natural when the clones followed. That was about the time FollowFriday went down the tubes.

We decided to mix things up in July with a little Flash word game based on hashtags, and discovered nobody cared because they were too busy playing 140 Mafia. Speaking of word games, we found someone passing secret codes on twitter. Also in July: @trent_reznor admitted he doesn’t care what you have to say.

Our friend, @Bytor, coined a trashy new twitter term in August, and we jumped on board. And, the trash built up on twitter as quizzes about anything and everything became the new topic for people with plenty of free time and an inability to create independent thought. We rounded out the month by making fun of short people.

Wow. Half a year down, and still plenty to say. We’ll finish the year in the next post.

What was your most memorable twitter fail moment of the past year? Share it with us in the comments.