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'''"Nitpik"''' the brand name of an abbreviated online social networking and micro-blogging service often used by businesspeople, entertainers, registered heroes, and fans of the latter. Nitpik was designed to work with most common communication devices, including cellphones, pagers, personal organizers, and hero communicators. | [[File:Nitpik-Samples.png|thumb|right|150px|Sample Nitpik Posts]] '''"Nitpik"''' the brand name of an abbreviated online social networking and micro-blogging service often used by businesspeople, entertainers, registered heroes, and fans of the latter. Nitpik was designed to work with most common communication devices, including cellphones, pagers, personal organizers, and hero communicators. | ||
Nitpik was originally developed for heroes to keep in touch with other heroes regarding their status and location. Unfortunately the technology was later acquired by several organizations including [http://www.champions-online-wiki.com/wiki/ARGENT ARGENT], resulting in criminals being able to get a lead on hero activities through their own reckless habit. In addition, a cadre of self-important entertainers and their PR firms got hold of Nitpik to spread the news of their own projects, effectively ruining the exclusiveness of the service. After that, access to the service was extended to the public. | Nitpik was originally developed for heroes to keep in touch with other heroes regarding their status and location. Unfortunately the technology was later acquired by several organizations including [http://www.champions-online-wiki.com/wiki/ARGENT ARGENT], resulting in criminals being able to get a lead on hero activities through their own reckless habit. In addition, a cadre of self-important entertainers and their PR firms got hold of Nitpik to spread the news of their own projects, effectively ruining the exclusiveness of the service. After that, access to the service was extended to the public. | ||
Revision as of 11:39, 23 May 2013
"Nitpik" the brand name of an abbreviated online social networking and micro-blogging service often used by businesspeople, entertainers, registered heroes, and fans of the latter. Nitpik was designed to work with most common communication devices, including cellphones, pagers, personal organizers, and hero communicators.
Nitpik was originally developed for heroes to keep in touch with other heroes regarding their status and location. Unfortunately the technology was later acquired by several organizations including ARGENT, resulting in criminals being able to get a lead on hero activities through their own reckless habit. In addition, a cadre of self-important entertainers and their PR firms got hold of Nitpik to spread the news of their own projects, effectively ruining the exclusiveness of the service. After that, access to the service was extended to the public.
Today Nitpik is primarily viewed as a "wannabe" service for those that want to be famous or important. This includes self-professed "hero agents".
Criticisms
In addition to the loss of exclusivity for heroes, Nitpik has been plagued with all sorts of complaints about its service.
Heroes using the service discovered, much to their horror, that the "FindMe" feature would embed map coordinates with every post, initially so that other heroes could trace them in the event of an emergency. This meant that anyone with access to Nitpik would know where that hero was at any given time, including their personal residences. This was initially supposed to be an optional feature, but ended up being imbedded into the service and left in "Always On" mode. Several heroes were inadvertently "caped" because of this feature.
Another criticism of the service is the limited number of character the service allows per post. Capped at 150 characters total, Nitpik has forced people to use abbreviated words or "Chipped English".
Once Nitpik was made available to the public, a new criticism came about... namely the discovery of "Nitpik Bots"; software that would allow someone with a Nitpik account to be remotely controlled by other users, to carry out certain functions in Nitpik such as approve (or "Okay") posts and to re-post them on their own accounts.
Related Information
(See also Twitter)
The full effect of Nitpik was seen in Future's Guardian #3.
