April Fool: Secret gvt plan to tax Twitter
This story was published on the morning of April Fool’s Day.
Twitter’s development in Australia is facing a major setback, with a secret Government plan to introduce a Tweet Tax, Mumbrella can reveal.
Mumbrella understands that the government is planning to tax Twitter users by the number of messages they send, at a rate of 1c per tweet. This will then be multiplied by the number of followers they have.
An insider at digital minister Stephen Conroy’s office told Mumbrella: “The stuff with Fake Stephen Conroy was the final straw. Although we pretended not to be bothered at the time, it put Twitter on our hit list. Now we have a great way of raising revenue from some of our biggest critics.”
Good one, Tim. Loved this line from the insider: “We did think about taxing newspapers instead, but we’re looking for a revenue stream that will last beyond 2012.” Hilarious. But remember the govt monitors every blog so this idea is now on their radar and could actually happen.
I understand that Twitter are integrating support for PayPal tip-jars on a per-user basis to help offset the cost.
Smiles. What day is it?
Wouldn’t surprise me Timbrella
hahahaha
Did you hear about Swann’s Saxophone quartet: Sweet Sax. Could that be the source of confusion here?
lolofl. well played, sir.
Nice anagram … CEO “Ralf Pooli” indeed!
Just as long as their lunch doesn’t start coming out backwards, we should be able to kind of cope with the words.
I admit….You had me for a nanosecond.
Nice April Fools article. Should get some readership outa that by the gullible (i.e. the Witchery & Stephen Conroy fans)
must have been thinking about this one all week….
Haha nice one.
Don’t some cultures advise against uttering bad thoughts lest the gods hear them?
Happy April 1st Mumbrella
Brilliiiant – Especially the newspaper 2012 comment!
Pinch and a punch, nice one guys 🙂
I love it. Have already been very well had this morning so had my wits about me by the time I got to this April Fools doozy. Thanks. Wish April 1st was every day. Lots of laughs to be had…
I had a Subway Pizza sub for luncH! yay twittered that one for free!