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Colbert Compares Twitter to Pets.com

by Terrence O'Brien on April 3, 2009 at 04:42 PM


Last night, Twitter founder Biz Stone subjected himself to an interview with mock-conservative TV host Stephen Colbert. Clearly, Biz isn't a big fan of the show. Otherwise, he'd have seen evidence of Colbert's grief-giving and would have been better prepared.

After taunting Stone and calling Twitter "an answer to a problem that we didn't have until [Biz Stone] invented the answer," Colbert then compared the site to Pets.com, the dotcom site that boomed and busted with equal hype back in the go-go '90s. Stone clearly struggled with Colbert, doing his best to explain himself and his service in between jabs from Colbert that the, "biz in Biz Stone does not stand for bizness model."


We give Stone credit for even attempting to tango with Colbert, but we couldn't help but chuckle as we watched the light disappear from Stone's eyes, and the smile on his face fade as the famous "Colbert bump" turned into the "Colbert spirit crusher."

Colbert went for the low blow by comparing Twitter to Pets.com, a Web 1.0 disaster. We almost feel bad for laughing... almost. [From: Silicon Alley Insider]

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