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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

2013 April Fools Day In Review: The Best Pranks Online | Daily Deal ...

twitter april fools While the origins of ?April Fools Day? are uncertain, there is one thing that is for sure about the day ? everyone was participating, even popular corporations. Yesterday several well known companies pranked onliners throughout the day of practical jokes. Some companies announced the closing of well known sites, while others revealed new, interesting, pages.

Here is a list of a few hoaxes that tricked some people throughout the day yesterday.

Google Announced The End Of YouTube

The popular search engine revealed that YouTube has been nothing more than an internet contest in search of the best video online. In addition the 8-year-long YouTube contest would declare the winner at mid-night (last night) and then shutdown the video streaming site forever.?

YouTube?s ?competition director? Tim Liston ? a person who is as fictional as his title ? explained to CNet that ?YouTube would go dark for a decade to give thousands of judges 10 years to go through all the uploaded videos and declare one winner, which will be the only video on the site when YouTube relaunches in 2023.?

In addition, Google revealed ?scentsation? in search?- Google Nose.?Still in it?s Beta phase, Google Nose ?leverages new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available.? The site claimed to offer a way to smell things through the screen. People would be able to get information about the world through searching for smells.

Twitter Announced Vowels Are Going To Cost You

Inspired by Wheel of Fortune, Twitter announced that using vowels in tweets was going to cost users $5 a month.?With the no-cost?Twttr, you get only consonants, plus the letter Y. Twitter?s blog explained, ?We?re doing this because we believe that by eliminating vowels, we?ll encourage a more efficient and ?dense? form of communication. We also see an opportunity to diversify our revenue stream.? ?They even unveiled a way to make the?transition easier for users, they built a site that automatically transforms Tweets into a Twttr friendly format:?twttr.com.

Netflix Added Super-Specific Categories

The popular streaming-video service revealed super specific television and movie categories yesterday, in addition to just as specific video suggestions. Some?examples?Netflix suggested were categories such as ?Movies And TV Shows About Seriously Pissed Off Wives?, ?Movies Starring Estelle Getty and Some Other Guy??and ?TV Shows Where Defiantly Crossed Arms Mean Business!?

Vimeo became ?Vimeow?

The video-hosting website transformed into ?Vimeow? with combination of its original site plus the internet?s love for cats. Vimeo?s homepage was overhauled into a cat related site with multiple cat related features, ?all in a?blog post?signed by its new ?Pawsident.?