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DEVELOPED NEWS World still wondering how West Cedarbrookese decorate their tweets
West Cedarbrook is home to pink and purple tweets - and the rest
of the world is still trying to figure out how that's possible
Wrycova, West Cedarbrook - Hate to break it to you, but the world is still unsure how tweets from West Cedarbrook look so decorated.
It all began when internet surfers saw something odd on Twitter - a string of tweets with pink-colored hashtags, pink-colored retweets and faves and misplaced avatars. Initially, most thought the tweets were made by website admins who needed to make themselves stand out in the vast cyberspace, but it was Biao Zi - a university student from Yucheng - who noticed that these tweets all came from one country.
"They're all from West Cedarbrook, and I thought: 'Pink? They must be having breast cancer awareness month or something, none of my business,'' Biao told The Pickle. So he left the tweets and went on with ordinary life.
But a month later, Biao returned to Twitter and saw Cedarbrookese still decorating their tweets with pink hashtags.
"'Man, this is some weird stuff. Shouldn't breast cancer awareness month be over?' I thought," Biao recalled. "I called Twitter and asked them about the Cedarbrookese tweets, but they were just as clueless as I was. Then it hit me - the Cedarbrookese have access to technology that we don't. Otherwise, all of us would be able to color our tweets pink."
So began a worldwide search for answers. It was only a matter of time before someone called up West Cedarbrook's foreign minister for a clear and concise answer, but to no avail.
"Pink tweets? What in Conitia's beard's name are you talking about?" Cedarbrookese Secretary of Foreign Affairs Vernon Kansky said in response to an interview request by The Pickle's Wrycova correspondent on the phone. "We ain't got 'em. But hey, we do have lotsa pink stuff we wanna sell you. Do you want some of our quality pink lemonade? The rest of the Latins have it, there's no reason why you can't."
Cedarbrookese in the streets were interviewed, but none of them had any clue what "decorated tweets" are.
"I mean, aren't tweets supposed to be pink?" Tobin Jude of Steinhouse said. "Or are tweets in your country not pink? That's weird - perhaps we can send our technicians to your computers and help you tweet properly, eh?"
Outside of the Kramden, numerous people have expressed interest in acquiring the ability to "tweet the Cedarbrookese way."
"It's definitely something I pink of doing," exclaimed Queen Elis of Katranjiev with a laugh before her father, the abdicated monarch Apostol XV whacked her with a cane, sending her back to her palace bedroom.