After Four Years Of Silence, Cyberpunk 2077's Twitter Account Comes Alive To Say "Beep" , II Cyberpunk 2077 wins the internet by tweeting one word after four years of silence , II Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter Gets First Update In Over Four Years
If you were hoping 2018 would bring Cyberpunk 2077 news, you're in luck, I guess?
If you were hoping 2018 would bring Cyberpunk 2077 news, you're in luck, I guess?
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Particularly in light of the success that The Witcher III: Wild Hunt has enjoyed, anticipation is high for the next project from developer CD Projekt Red. But news on the new game, Cyberpunk 2077, has been hard to come by in recent years, despite the fact that it was originally announced in 2012 and a teaser trailer (above) was released in early 2013. That makes any morsel of information big news, but the latest development on the Cyberpunk front may not even qualify for "morsel" status.
Cyberpunk's official Twitter account has been dark since December 5, 2013, when it shared a link regarding an award it won for that 2013 trailer. Today that all changed, with the account coming back to life for what surely had to be an important announcement, right? Not quite.
"Beep." That's it. Or, more accurately, "*beep*," with asterisks, as if to indicate this is merely the sound, and not even the word. Why? What is this purpose of this tweet? Is it a joke from a bored community manager? A sociological experiment? A warning that Skynet has come to life?
Presumably, this is merely meant to remind people about the game and to drum up interest before a proper re-reveal later this year. If that's the case, it's worked--in less than an hour, it's accumulated more than 2,000 retweets and 4,000 Likes on Twitter, and this undoubtedly won't be the only post you see online from a gaming publication about the tweet.
With development Witcher 3 and its DLC comfortably behind it, 2018 does seem like as good of a time as any for CD Projekt Red to formally unveil Cyberpunk 2077. (That was actually one of our recent predictions for 2018 in gaming.) Whether that proves to be the case remains to be seen, but it would be nice to think the company didn't dust off the cobwebs on its Twitter account just for the hell of it.
Good news; Twitter will now let you know if Waluigi is banned
Twitter is a confounding social media platform, and their unreasonable besmirchment of Waluigi in their new reporting system will not stand.
If there’s anything that Twitter has done, it’s made consumption of information immediate and the reactions to it equally so. People will form their own communities and cross over into others, expanding their knowledge and understanding of the denizens within. It’s like a gigantic high school like that, and it’s like a high school in the way people are punished; draconian and with double standards.However, Twitter knows it needs to do better in the name of safety and security for its most vulnerable users, so it has started to implement a more personable system for reporting violators on its platform, including knowing that your report led to action. The plans were originally laid out on December 14, but now the @TwitterSafety account has notified followers that the update is now live.
One thing that was immediately noticeable was that the example violation report Twitter used included a non-descript sample account that had a Waluigi avatar, indicating that their “investigation found this account in violation of the Twitter Rules.”
However, this next twist in this plot is confusing. While there is an example account with a Waluigi avatar created in October 2017 (likely by Twitter themselves), there is also an account with the exact same username and URL that was created in June 2012, tweeting just five times. It turns out, Twitter can’t even use their own sample Twitter account without using an uppercase i, but with a lowercase L.
The rabbit hole goes deeper, but our interest in this story stays put. Free Waluigi!
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