Twitter plays its April Fools joke: You must buy your vowels

Cute.

Starting today, we are shifting to a two-tiered service: Everyone can use our basic service, Twttr, but you only get consonants. For five dollars a month, you can use our premium “Twitter” service which also includes vowels.We’re doing this because we believe that by eliminating vowels, we’ll encourage a more efficient and “dense” form of communication. We also see an opportunity to diversify our revenue stream. Here’s our mockup of the most retweeted Tweet of all time as it would appear in the new Twttr:

https://twitter.com/adhimatera/status/318589783800700928

"@twitter HAHAHAH
its APRIL FOOL :))"

— ثامر الدخيل – بوراشد Thamer Aldakheel (@bourashed) April 1, 2013

@CabreraCNN well-played 🙂

— Tim Trueman (@timtrueman) April 1, 2013

Getting my Wheel of Fortune game up! RT @twitter: Trd th nw Twttr yt? Mr tm fr mr twts! http://t.co/p9pT48HgCQ #nvwls

— Jeff Hou (@jeffwhou) April 1, 2013

Yowch.

This would be funny if it wasn't plausible. RT @twitter: Trd th nw Twttr yt? Mr tm fr mr twts! http://t.co/wVnEk2ylK4 #nvwls

— andrew (just a man, doing the best I can) (@smartwatermelon) April 1, 2013