True - on January 18th, 2010 @OMGFacts tweeted the latest in its series of unverifiable and unsubstantiated rumors (not surprising); in an attempt to come up with a topical “fact” for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday @OMGFacts tweeted the following:
@OMGFacts Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women. http://bit.ly/5CuCHL #omgfacts [google cache of bit.ly link - ed.]
And with that tactless claim, @OMGFacts founder @AdorianDeck began catching a lot of heat (to put it lightly). The twittersphere revolted, eventually the offending tweet was deleted, and several hours later, the entire account was gone with only this note from it’s creator:
@AdorianDeck Deleted it. Only cared about #s and $ recently. Greed. Stopped thinking about things, I’ll just say…I’ve learned so much. No regrets.
And there it is, the end; unfortunately (fortunately?) it was this distasteful tweet (regardless of the veracity) that brought the 302,788 followers to revolt against the 1,142 mostly-false facts that had been tweeted since September 27, 2009 rather than the other 1,141 mostly-false, unverifiable, unsubstantiated claims posing as facts. If anything, OMGFact(s)Check suddenly has some free time, and the rest of you will have a little less mindless retweeted drek filling your inboxes. It was fun while it lasted, so long and thanks for all the fish.
update: looks like as of Midnight January 18th, 2010 ET @AdorianDeck has restored @OMGFacts to serve as an archive of rumors and falsehoods:
@OMGFacts Enjoy the library of tweets, and this will forever be the only official #omgfacts
update: our haitus may soon be over, @OMGFacts states on Facebook:
OMGFacts I don’t think OMGFacts will be gone forever…just a break. For now.
If this is turns out to be true, we’ll be ready!
source: I was there, man!
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