Flutter Mocks You, Me and Our Microblogging Addiction

Nanoblogging – blogging in 26 characters or less – is the hot new trend, says Zak Ryman, CEO of newcomer Flutter. Not only can you nano-blog throughout the day on the site’s iPhone app, but you can also input your updates from other social media sites and have Flutter automatically cut them down to the 26 character limit, giving them the brevity required to be consumed by your ADD-afflicted friends and followers.

It is, of course, a fictitious parody of everything that’s hot in social media – a “mockumentary” created by Slate Magazine to poke fun at the web’s latest obsession. It’s not exactly Spinal Tap, but we’ll take what we can get.

If you have the attention span to watch an entire 3 minute video, please let us know how it ends.

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• How about a site called Butter with all the fat?
• I think Flutter is totally unnecessary....
• Edit: Used the wrong "your". Meant "you're".
• Flutter's been out for less than a day and its already got competition.... http://tinyurl.com/c3utw7
• I have laughed till I had to wipe mascara off my face! This is awesome, thanks for sharing! :D
• Turns out the actual Flutter (http://flutter.freshout.us) is Freshout's WordPress plugin that turns the WordPress backend into a full CMS - we've been getting a ton of traffic from people thinking the 26-character nanoblogging tool is an actual product, kinda hilarious and random ;)
• Amazing how many people are visiting http://flutter.freshout.us to search for the new twitter and the all people disappointed at how it's not better than twitter! aye
• This video might try to poke at being funny but it was more annoying. I should have stopped watching after 30 seconds like most people.
• Seems interesting but I wouldn’t be able to share a complete thought in 26 characters. I think the 140 characters that Twitter uses is more reasonable. The example the intern in the video gave from turning a phrase from Twitter to Flutter does not make any sense. I wouldn’t understand half of the Flutter phrases if they were all like that.
• hi guy its mee DEMI LOVATO listen to my song (Don't forget) ok thanks.....
• It's no new idea )) Looks like joke. In what difference from Twitter? 100 % clone of Twtr with even big restrictions
• How super duper awesome, I have a new startup too, it's called Splutter and it's a 3 character microblogging service. Most "spluts" are people saying "wow" "LOL" and "OMG" ! It's insane!
• contact me I have news about my daughter

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