Glitchr is a Facebook account entirely devoted to a single cause : destroying Facebook.
One of the reasons Facebook killed MySpace was because it was so much cleaner. MySpace let you change your background, add music and animation, and even execute your own Javascript. In comparison, Facebook was paradise. MySpace was K-Mart on the brink of bankruptcy; Facebook was Ikea.
We've gotten used to this level of cleanliness, and now take the rigid borders and ordered structure of Facebook and Twitter for granted. They're utterly predictable, which is why it's so much fun when someone finds a tweet that breaks Twitter, and why Glitchr, a Facebook account devoted to collecting posts that break or distort Facebook, is so fucking satisfying.
Forget Facebook. Come over to Faceboo͐ͩͪ̐͌̏̑̚̕͢ ╪..
Via: rhizome.org
Glitchr's tricks range from scripting tricks — seemingly real exploits — to the use of unusual symbols called diacritics. Rhyzome explains:
Diacritics are accent marks used to indicate the type of pronunciation a certain word infers. Diacritics are used in Latin script, but are also specific to other alphabetic systems such as the vowel pointing scripts of the Arabic harakat.
