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Viral Video: Twitteleh, Yet Another Twitter Parody Has Wings

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Since it debuted last week, a spoof video for Twitteleh is rising fast, with close to 200,000 views on YouTube.

It’s one of the many parodies of the popular microblogging service, Twitter, which attracts them the way it attracts valuation-mad VCs.

This one urges good sons to tweet answers to classic Jewish mother questions such as: “What have you eaten?” and “Are you wearing a sweater?”

Here it is:

And, here are BoomTown’s two favorite Twitter-mocking videos so far, one from Slate for Flutter and one from “The Daily Show,” with the incomparable Samantha Bee:

Comments

  1. Kara: Thanks for sharing. Meanwhile, this works exactly the same way for Indian mothers.

    Posted by sree sreenivasan at September 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 am
  2. BTW, I think you’ve created the right shortlist for the best Twitter parody videos. One more must-add video: “Twitter in Real Life” from CollegeHumor:
    http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1909386

    cheers, sree
    @sreenet
    http://sree.net

    Posted by sree sreenivasan at September 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 am

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