Kilgray Translation Technologies have announced today, April 1st 2011, that memoQfest will be a tweet free zone. This is obviously a very welcome move. However when one translation industry gathering tried to have one of their council meetings as tweet free, they instantly had a lot of tweets from the meeting. Everyone had to be told that the meeting was to be twitter free and what they thought of this idea.
Kilgray recognizes this problem and has contracted technology from startup company Nofundotcom. “Our technology is very simple,” explained Dr. I.M.A. Spoilport, Vice President for meanness at Nofundotcom. “We use advanced firewall reversal technology and using this we can filter what is being sent from the conference. We can be absolutely certain that nothing will get through.” Dr. Spoilsport has advised Kilgray that because of how the various social media interact with each other there is a need to ban them all.
The problem is that if someone writes a note on an Inyourfacebook wall it can then appear as a tweet within seconds. Some of these social media websites and other facilities are very popular with the people planning to attend the conference and there maybe problems with withdrawal. In order to combat any psychological effects Kilgray has enlisted the services of eminent psychiatrist Prof. Killjoy. The professor is most famous for his work with schools, the “Don’t accept tweets from strangers” project.
“I have seen some of the antic of those planning to attend memoQfest and I find it deeply disturbing,” said Prof. Killjoy. “One lady, who is in fact a speaker at the conference, frequently announces, through Facebook, that she is awake, up and heading towards the swimming pool at 5.30 AM. Imagine if this sort of behavior caught on, psychiatrists like me could be out of a job.”
For those who want to break the rules please use #memoqfest for tweeting from memoQfest and our Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/kilgra
