The Great Internet Color Wars on Twitter

March 19th, 2008 | 17 Comments | Categorised as: Uncategorized

Let the ColorWars begin!

Like every crazy trend on twitter, Colorwars2008 started out as an inside joke. An inside joke I was not privy too. Is is because I'm Canadian?

My Story:
I wake up around *tea time and find a crazy **color thing happening on twitter. All the cool kids had added a "Team Color" to their twitter avatars. Naturally, I am confused and like many Non-Silicon Valley outsiders, I just didn't quite get the joke. After searching googly & twitter, I was even further down the rabbit hole with who started it (Team Very Green's Gary Vaynerchuk or Team Blue's @zefrank) and why and just simply "Wha- happened?"

I'm not sure anyone really has a clue why they are doing it and for what greater purpose.

Choosing a Colour:
I'm partial to the Gold Team's current avatar graphic and the fact that a number of Gold followers are Pro Viking horns (finally, I fit in!). Team Blue doesn't even have an avatar. Lame. Team #FF1CAE has got iJustine's l0v3, but Veronica is supporting Team Very Green.

Joining a twitter color team:
Just follow your team of preference on twitter and hizzah you are part of 2008 Colorwars. There are maaaaany teams, but here is a list of the main ones.

Twitter ColorWars begins tomorrow! What team are you? Convince me to join your team, I dare you!!

*Don't judge me for my nocturnal habit, I was designing a sweet web site into the wee hours.... Ok fine, I was procrastinating the designing of a sweet web site whilst watching movies... sue me.

**Colour > Color. No one respects the Queen's English anymore.

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    jer said on March 19, 2008:

    Go Team Very Green

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    Chris Magnusson said on March 19, 2008:

    Why does it have to be about the colours?

    Why are there no pattern teams? Or 3D form teams?

    Team argyle? Team plaid? Team herringbone? Team fishscale? Team tetrahedran? Team hexahedron? Team dodecahedron?

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    Pasquale said on March 19, 2008:

    What the heck. I am not even aware of this.

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    Mitchell said on March 19, 2008:

    Oh great, now I have to pick a colour.

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    Mitchell said on March 19, 2008:

    HA! Join the web 2.0 team, @c0ff00team.
    LIME GREEN is like the most web 2.0 colour ever... mostly.

    (see what I did thar?)

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    Mitchell said on March 19, 2008:

    @C0FF00team, I mean. Always forget the "team" at the end. Ugh.

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    Chris Magnusson said on March 19, 2008:

    Why not actually @c0ffee? That works for hex. It's a nice sky-ish blue.

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    thebluestbutterfly said on March 19, 2008:

    I like the blue team. Right this second I am looking at a lot of blue....the dolphins swimming around in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Blue is pretty.

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    Mostly Lisa said on March 20, 2008:

    I think I might be over the color wars.

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    Mick said on March 20, 2008:

    Man twitter freaks me out sometimes, so many weird things go on . A little unpredictable but fun I suppose

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    michael wilson said on March 20, 2008:

    I think I'll give this one a miss as I have dance class tonight and designing a dr who website for my nieces all day tommorrow and the next day..and the next day....and the etc.

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    veronica said on March 20, 2008:

    Team Very Green has the promise of presents! That was enough for me ;)

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    Chris Magnusson said on March 20, 2008:

    Ooh! Presents! Can one belong to two teams at the same time?

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    Webb’s Media » Blog Archive » Summer camp on the internet said on March 24, 2008:

    [...] noticed red teamers, I assumed it was a linux thing. (Maybe it is a linux thing?). Thank goodness someone else had already been sleuthing, and this explanation should have been enough. However, there is an official call for participation [...]

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    …Twitter is at war? at Didnt You Hear… said on March 25, 2008:

    [...] Mostly Lisa] These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web [...]

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    ali said on March 26, 2008:

    Mahalawala woman, ... sorry i just dont get close enough to celebs.

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    Pasquale said on May 11, 2008:

    I love that you have a giant pez desktop.

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