{"id":1490,"date":"2009-12-13T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/best-man-pranks-newlyweds-by-connecting-their-bed-to-twitter-pranks\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T02:00:00","slug":"best-man-pranks-newlyweds-by-connecting-their-bed-to-twitter-pranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/best-man-pranks-newlyweds-by-connecting-their-bed-to-twitter-pranks.php","title":{"rendered":"Best Man Pranks Newlyweds by Connecting Their Bed to Twitter [Pranks]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b86a3_newlywedspranktwitter.jpg\" class=\"left image340\" width=\"340\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Maybe everyone wouldn't be so riled up about Facebook's <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5422805\/facebook-begins-privacy-con\">privacy changes<\/a> if they knew what's up over at Twitter. A best man set up a prank where his friend's bed now tweets whenever the newlyweds are, *ahem*, \"on the job.\"<\/p><p>The best man promised the groom that there wouldn't be any tricks before the wedding. Of course, he didn't say anything about <i>after<\/i> the wedding. Using the same concept behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/The-Twittering-Office-Chair\/\">Twittering office chair<\/a>, the best man set up a system where every time there's increased activity up top, the bed reports it. Once all is said and done, the bed reports a summary (including a \"frenzy index\"), along with a judge's comment for good measure.<\/p><p>The anonymous best man defends himself by saying \"BTW - he stitched me up something rotten when he was my best man so I reckon this is reasonable payback :)\" He also promises that he will never reveal who he is or the identity of the couple.<\/p><p>Depending on how you look at it, it's either a gross invasion of privacy or a hilarious prank. Tomato toh-mah-toe, I say. If this happened to me, it would definitely be one of those \"I hate my friends\" moments when I found out. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newlywedsontjob\">@newlywedsontjob<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.140char.com\/2009\/12\/the-best-twitter-prank-ever\/\">140char<\/a>, thanks <em>Everyone Like Me<\/em>]<\/p><p> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"><br><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"><br><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ac240febbbccb5868030dcfe67c4a20b&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b86a3_img.phdo?s=ac240febbbccb5868030dcfe67c4a20b&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f852_eus.gif?eui=2226\"><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/R2Y02TAVgO_dus9_pmGBWUwWCmc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f852_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/R2Y02TAVgO_dus9_pmGBWUwWCmc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f852_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=4n1Bfnn4MKU:PeB0VJZo3mY:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f852_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=4n1Bfnn4MKU:PeB0VJZo3mY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f852_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=4n1Bfnn4MKU:PeB0VJZo3mY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f852_full?i=4n1Bfnn4MKU:PeB0VJZo3mY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=4n1Bfnn4MKU:PeB0VJZo3mY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f852_full?i=4n1Bfnn4MKU:PeB0VJZo3mY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f852_4n1Bfnn4MKU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe everyone wouldn't be so riled up about Facebook's privacy changes if they knew what's up over at Twitter. A best man set up a prank where his friend's bed now tweets whenever the newlyweds are, *ahem*, \"on the job.\"The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/best-man-pranks-newlyweds-by-connecting-their-bed-to-twitter-pranks.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}