Fun seeing my brother’s #Wordle game blow up. Ironically, he decided NOT to do all the things you’re supposed to do to make a viral hit- like allowing people to play for hours or putting a hyperlink in the sharing function. It works because it’s atypical.https://t.co/BfPRSyGK5l

— Tim Wardle (@ttwardle) January 3, 2022

Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games and created a guessing game for the two of them called Wordle. Just over two months after releasing it to the rest of the world, the once-a-day game has over 300,000 players. https://t.co/2xgz0VUZHT

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 4, 2022

This harkens back to what the Web used to be. We used to build cool shit for others to enjoy. https://t.co/HsIRfWsOtl

— Ben Ramsey is boosted ? (@ramsey) January 4, 2022

The real web is @powerlanguish making a game for someone he loves, not smothering it in surveillance-based ads or creepy growth hacks, and limiting it so it doesn’t even try to steal more than a few minutes of your time. Wordle deserves all its success. https://t.co/LCNbIJah7O

— Anil Dash (@anildash) January 4, 2022

this gets at the elemental hostility I feel towards the NFT scarcity hype. completely at odds with everything good about online https://t.co/kGqBkuKmsT

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) January 4, 2022

If you’re wondering what’s up with the grids of green and yellow people are posting, the @nytimes has a story about the creation of Wordle, and it’s very sweet and charming which is a goddamned relief in these hellish times. https://t.co/37nV3xySjg

— Dan Moren (@dmoren) January 4, 2022

I mean, just because EVERYONE else is playing it.

Wordle 197 4/6

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— Richard Osman (@richardosman) January 2, 2022

Wordle 194 6/6

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Almost hoisted by my own petard

— Josh Wardle (@powerlanguish) December 30, 2021

Fun facts about Wordle:

- It was made by Josh Wardle (@powerlanguish), so the name is a pun
- He originally made it just for his partner because she loves word games
- He’s got about 2,500 words in the queue so we’re set for yearshttps://t.co/iq7zBkgg48

— Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) January 3, 2022

I'm not very good at Wordle

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— Dan Ilic ? (@danilic) January 3, 2022

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— Asian 47 (@michaelphigham) December 27, 2021

Manifesting a software engineer as my next boyfriend. https://t.co/VOS5Fy6Lqe

— Shahmir Sanni (@shahmiruk) January 4, 2022

jumped on this bandwagon this morning. I’m a fan.

fellow spelling bee queens/kings/themperors, get into it: https://t.co/vnAwyGoCos

— lil uzi veritas (@nadirahdixit) January 4, 2022

Had to look up why there’s a sudden influx of green cubes in my feed. Wasn’t expecting them to stem from an act of love.https://t.co/9GK0l5MRBK

— Alyssa Vidales (@instalyssa) January 3, 2022

“It’s not trying to do anything shady with your data or your eyeballs.”

It’s a love story ?
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— Jaala Pulford MP (@JaalaPulford) January 4, 2022

Just pointing out you can mute “?” on Twitter and clear out like half your timeline

— alex hern (@alexhern) January 4, 2022

Feel like I’ve just discovered a letter based fight club

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Wordle 199 5/6

— Gemma Styles (@GemmaAnneStyles) January 4, 2022

not saying the web is in bad shape but "person makes fun website and doesn't try to prey upon its audience" is literally national news https://t.co/NJ1XirvYOt

— Tom Lee (@tjl) January 4, 2022

This software engineer in Brooklyn started #Wordle for his parter - a desi Guju woman named Palak Shah. Lovely piece in yesterday's @nytimes. https://t.co/RKqpdFat1Y

— Aseem Chhabra (@chhabs) January 4, 2022

oh you say you're into wordle? i dare you to share your go-to first guess

mine's LEAST these days but i think there's room for improvement https://t.co/qkKzcPMgyS

— Ellen Huet (@ellenhuet) January 4, 2022

This is all well and good but I feel strongly that no Wordle word should be allowed to have two of the same letter. https://t.co/IduO078wjz

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) January 4, 2022

What a story! ??

“Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games, so he created a guessing game for just the two of them. As a play on his last name, he named it Wordle.”https://t.co/hEL6WR3SBo

— Venkat Ananth (@venkatananth) January 4, 2022

The only apps I admire are the ones that don't want to suck away our liveshttps://t.co/oHOLdgRSqp pic.twitter.com/YDzWDUr2Et

— Laurel Wamsley (@laurelwamsley) January 3, 2022

Wordle: why the inventor of the fiendishly addictive online game doesn’t want your money https://t.co/onnfYcw4u8

— Melissa Clark-Reynolds (@HoneyBeeGeek) January 4, 2022

낱말 맞히기 게임 좋아하는 여친 위해 프로그래머가 만든 단어 퍼즐. 몇 달간 둘이만 즐기다 가족 친지 지인들한테 소개 인기. 작년 10월 일반 공개 2개월 만에 참여자 30만 넘어. 5자로 된 영어 단어 매일 새로 제시. 추측 6회 만에 힌트로 맞혀가는 방식. 도전해 보시길. https://t.co/FCoKHGUJjq

— Journey (@atmostbeautiful) January 7, 2022

? In all likelihood, you’ve started 2022 with a Wordle addiction.

And unlike most things on the internet, there doesn’t seem much harm in it

Here's the love story behind Britain’s favourite brain teaser ??https://t.co/Y6b6OL4Ggq

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 5, 2022

? Wardle's simple act of love has given the world a gift – and it’s not even robbing our attention.

"If only all internet entrepreneurs were that unambitious" writes @MrGuyKelly

Read more ?https://t.co/Y6b6OL4Ggq

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 5, 2022

"Wardle noticed players sharing their results by typing out a grid of green, yellow and black emojis, so he built an automated way for players to brag about their successes in a spoiler-free way." https://t.co/uWeL8zBwc3

— Danny Groner (@DannyGroner) January 3, 2022

This is the loveliest backstory https://t.co/ocM30bbnoB

— amanda strydom (@A_Strydom) January 5, 2022

no, it even has a cute origin story, KEEP TRYING WORDLE HATERS https://t.co/510f5vRIcP https://t.co/JOPLnjawgP

— D A N A (@womensrites) January 7, 2022

Wordle Is a Love Story

The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months. It was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner. https://t.co/6fFauQCSMJ

— Tactical Tech (@Info_Activism) January 7, 2022

Chris! It’s a word game, and a love story!! https://t.co/lDP2dhUvjQ

— Crumbs and Corks (@crumbsandcorks) January 7, 2022

US software engineer designed online game Wordle as ‘love letter to wife’. It’s viral now

Raghav Bikhchandani @raghav_bikh reports for ThePrint https://t.co/zVtgvLteZH

— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) January 6, 2022

케빈 켈리: 현행 저작권/특허는 사회적 비용으로 소유자에게 과다 보상한다. 대부분의 발명은 다수의 성과, 새것이란 것도 이전 것 조합이나 재구성, 혁신도 기존 것에 추가한 것. 20년 혜택으로 충분. 퍼블릭 도메인과 공평한 사용이 디폴트이고 IP 독점은 예외여야 한다. https://t.co/bRJRJTYIMl…

— Journey (@atmostbeautiful) January 7, 2022

I think our current framework for copyright and patents is inverted. Public domain should be the default, not the special case. My reasons here: https://t.co/hP95K3Ogpq

— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) January 4, 2022