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“Internet Explorer 10 takes the lead in browser privacy” —Geek.com

"Greatly enhanced and is simply delightful" —Gizmodo

“Flip ahead feature in Internet Explorer 10 is slick” —Tweet

Sources for the first two might actually be findable. "Tweet" as a front-page endorsement? I'm not sure if they're trying to be funny or serious. That looks more like something theonion.com would use.

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I'd take a random tweet a lot more seriously than Gizmodo.

A random tweet possibly made by a person working at Microsoft? Or maybe the tweet doesn't actually exist.

I've seen companies (gaming companies, mostly) that display tweets as endorsements for a game and then, when I try to find the tweet in Twitter, that user mysteriously doesn't exist.

> A random tweet possibly made by a person working at Microsoft? Or maybe the tweet doesn't actually exist.

Yes.

Tweet is probably https://twitter.com/sempf/status/220185961080946689

Isn't it odd that his website is styled the same way windows 8 is and all of his blog posts are on windows 8? Not the toughest of critics, I'd wager.

> Sources for the first two might actually be findable. "Tweet" as a front-page endorsement? I'm not sure if they're trying to be funny or serious. That looks more like something theonion.com would use.

Of course it's an ironic joke.

Yes, even people in big companies like Microsoft sometimes have a sense of humor.

Citing "Tweet" is something they've previously done on the IE webpage. It didn't come off to me then as an ironic joke but a genuine marketing blurb.

Users can relate to tweets more than a tech website.

it's just a data point, but I read that as self-ironic.

I'm pretty sure it's filler text used during the design that made it into production.

I think you're right, they've already changed it

Not changed for me, but I see the en-gb version, perhaps en-us is different?

Still not changed for me.

Looks like it's different for every visitor.

Wow, didn't notice that. Must be a joke.

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