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Twofo Is Dying
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It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarry, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.
You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.
N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.
Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.
Fact: Twofo is dying
Otherwise my secret is fucked.
I can't let people know the secrets of spending more time doing things that make me happy, and less time worrying about the world around me.
The world at large, foreign affairs, and global happenings, have yet to smack me in the back of the head for ignoring them... yet. So, I'll cross my fingers, and pray to probability, that they do so soon, and bring me to my senses, that I should devote more time to reading/watching the news.
This is what you want, yes?
Honestly, I don't care for the most part. I'm 21, I work anywhere from 36 to 54 hours a week. I have better things to do with my free time, like, things that are enjoyable, and I have things I care about more than the "news" on any given day. The only reason I'm currently spending even this much time on a news site is that my current job has a fair amount of dead time where I can browse online, while nothing is busy. If the news floats your boat that much, more power to you. Otherwise keep it in your pants chief, cause I aint having any of it.
It's kinda hard to not have a pretty good idea about what's going on in the world around you unless you literally live in a cave. I get my daily news second-hand from my co-workers, and at my second job, dealing with customers. I'd have to try extra hard to IGNORE the world around me.
Why you needed to be a douchecock and say that, I can only guess. But if I wanted to be told to watch/read the news more, and how important current events are, I'd go to an old folks home. As it stands, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, are all the news I want/need.
In the end, the only thing that matters is how much fun you had.
Why do you and others feel the need to sign your handle at the end of a post? Are you aware that it says your name at the top of the post under the title? You aren't even using the signature section of your comments to do it. Instead you have some quote in your signature and you have to type your actually signature manually. It seems poorly thought out to me.