Both Twitter and Google have pulled some decent jokes this Halloween. Starting with Google, they have as usual implemented a holiday logo, this year the logo’s candy unwraps each time you click on it. More subtly though, the robots.txt file on Google contains some special instructions for User-agent: Kids (For the uninitiated, the robots.txt file tells search bots like Googlebot which pages not to index on a web site). Its part of a tradition, last year /brains were disallowed for user-agent: zombies.
Google's Halloween logo transformation.
Some special instructions in Google's robot.txt file.
Twitter has started to follow suit on the hijinks, this year if you put the the words trick or treat in as hashtags (so #trick or #treat) in the Twitter web interface, the web site modifies itself. In the case of #treat the effect is minor, the background changes and Twitter wishes you a happy Halloween. But if you put #trick in as your status, you get an homage to the zombie film 28 Days Later as those in your Twitter stream start to infect each other.
Result of inputting #trick as your Twitter status.
Result of inputting #treat as your Twitter status.
Happy Halloween.
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