This is just a quick post about the breakout of the first twitter war. It’s a friendly and colorful war in which each twitter user can participate by following one team. Most teams are using color names, but there are already sightings of other kinds of teams.

The idea is to see which color has more followers. But there’s some discussion on how to make things more fun. Corvida at Shegeeks is trying to keep count on things but it’s not that simple since anyone can join multiple teams or create their own team.

Being Portuguese I’ve joined greenredteam. Have fun, come join the twitter color war.

During our lives we cross paths with lots of different people, some of them end up being homeless. It’s a phenomenon that I’ve never quite got to understand, but i sympathize with someone who’s just like me, but happens to don’t have a house to live in.

Most of these homeless turn to begging, and scavenging stuff that they can later sell for a dollar or two. We see them roaming around the streets of our cities and just try to avoid them. Maybe once in a while someone will throw some quarters or dimes to a cup and feel that they’ve done a good thing. I do it my self and i feel that somehow I’ve helped someone that day.

On the web we see lots of donate buttons everywhere, most like homeless people they turn invisible to the eye after a while, and we just plainly avoid them. Mixing these two concepts seems pointless. But due to the nature of the web, people are always drawn to bizarre and weird stuff. And that’s what bumllionaire.com is all about.

The website is full of videos of this NY homeless guy that apparently conjured a plan to turn himself from a bum to a billionaire. The concept is quite simple, if everyone would donate just 1 dollar, he’ll be stinking rich very soon. Rich enough to be on the Forbes magazine.

The idea seems odd, but everyone loves the underdog, and also love to stick it to the man, which in this case are the bunch of rich persons that appear on Forbes.

Calling out on basic human nature to change his condition seems quite simple, and that’s why he’ll probably raise enough money to get off the streets pretty soon.