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10 Things the Media Either Gets Wrong or Doesn’t Know About the Winklevoss Twins

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By Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss 4/11/11 5:25pm

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  • They aren't looking for sympathy - only your understanding that everyone, no matter who they are or what they look like, should qualify for justice.
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    The Winklevoss twins lost another round in their legal battle against Mark Zuckerberg today, but according to their lawyer, they aren’t giving up yet. Our newest team member, Foster Kamer, has corresponded in the past with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss for a story about their thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg. They responded instead with the following email,  which seeks to educate members of the public and the media on these oft misunderstood monozygotes.

    From Cameron and Tyler:

    Hey Foster,

    Talked it over, and thought that perhaps doing a “10 things you probably don’t know about the Winklevoss” or “10 Things the media either gets wrong or doesn’t know about the Winklevoss twins” might be best format.

     

     

  • Back Forward They don't know which one is older.

    They don't know which one is older.

  • Back Forward They had been working on HarvardConnection for over a year by the time they approached Mark Zuckerberg asking him to become a partner.

    They had been working on HarvardConnection for over a year by the time they approached Mark Zuckerberg asking him to become a partner.

  • Back Forward They can in fact program - at age 13 they taught themselves HTML and started a webpage company that built websites for business.

    They can in fact program - at age 13 they taught themselves HTML and started a webpage company that built websites for business.

  • Back Forward They are not Harvard legacies - they are first in their family to earn undergraduate degrees from an Ivy League institution.

    They are not Harvard legacies - they are first in their family to earn undergraduate degrees from an Ivy League institution.

  • Back Forward Cameron is left-handed, Tyler is right-handed

    Cameron is left-handed, Tyler is right-handed

  • Back Forward They aren't just jocks - both played classical piano for 12 years growing up starting at age 6.

    They aren't just jocks - both played classical piano for 12 years growing up starting at age 6.

  • Back Forward They did not get their meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers through their father’s connections - they went to the president’s student office hours and waited in line like everyone else.

    They did not get their meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers through their father’s connections - they went to the president’s student office hours and waited in line like everyone else.

  • Back Forward They are not appealing their settlement agreement for more - they are appealing it because Facebook (according to its own valuations) gave them $31 million instead of the agreed-upon $65 million.

    They are not appealing their settlement agreement for more - they are appealing it because Facebook (according to its own valuations) gave them $31 million instead of the agreed-upon $65 million.

  • Back Forward They are not blue-blooded aristocrats - their paternal great-grandfather was a coal miner, their maternal grandfather was an NYPD detective.

    They are not blue-blooded aristocrats - their paternal great-grandfather was a coal miner, their maternal grandfather was an NYPD detective.

  • Back They aren't looking for sympathy - only your understanding that everyone, no matter who they are or what they look like, should qualify for justice.

    They aren't looking for sympathy - only your understanding that everyone, no matter who they are or what they look like, should qualify for justice.

Comments

  1. Anonymous says:
    April 11, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    HTML is not programming, but ok!

  2. langer says:
    April 11, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    HTML ISN’T PROGRAMMING. HTML ISN’T PROGRAMMING. HTML ISN’T PROGRAMMING AND GEOCITIES HOMEPAGES AREN’T FUCKING COMPUTER SCIENCE. FUCK THESE CLOWNS. QED.

  3. Cinebarfly says:
    April 11, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    Which are things that the media got wrong and which are things that people don’t know?

  4. Hostilewordrat says:
    April 11, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    10 Things the Media Either Gets Wrong or Doesn’t Know or Doesn’t Care About – About the Winklevoss Twins

  5. sfBirdie says:
    April 11, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    “… they are appealing it because Facebook (according to its own valuations) gave them $31 million instead of the agreed-upon $65 million.” — Um, do the judges know this?

  6. Shim Code says:
    April 11, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    They got fugged – by themselves and others – and now they want more. Boo Hoo…

    {wink…wink}

  7. Anonymous says:
    April 11, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    HTML ISN’T PROGRAMMING. NUFF SAID

  8. Anonymous says:
    April 11, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    HTML ISN’T PROGRAMMING. NUFF SAID

  9. Anonymous says:
    April 11, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    The glam shots make this mostly inane list ridiculous.

  10. Oliver Foggin says:
    April 12, 2011 at 12:26 am

    I think you should change the title to refer to “10 thing the media either gets wrong or doesn’t know about the Winklevi”.

    What a pair of losers though.

  11. John Hamlin says:
    April 12, 2011 at 3:36 am

    Taught themselves HTML. This is like “taught themselves how to use a pencil”

  12. Lacy Quivvers says:
    April 12, 2011 at 4:32 am

    10 things that no one gives a fuck about

  13. Nick Parker says:
    April 12, 2011 at 6:31 am

    I fought about making a mobile app store before apple.. Does that mean I am entitled to millions? Since when did daydreaming fetch millions. Seriously this country is going nut…..

  14. Guest says:
    April 12, 2011 at 8:29 am

    do you really think that all the umemployed and impoverished in your country cares about your justice? try asking for their sympathy when they can’t afford decent legal representation, let alone afford a meal for their family.
    get over yourselves. . . .

  15. Fozzy says:
    April 12, 2011 at 11:37 am

    I think USA got now their own Bogdanov Brothers …

  16. ELTED says:
    April 12, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    TEN THINGS THE WINKLEVOSS PUBLICIST WANTS YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THEM

    This is the biggest bunch of crap I have ever read

    PS their new site guestofguest is S*** – should have

  17. Stephen says:
    April 12, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    They’ve been working on Harvard Connection for over a year before they hired Zuckerberg. It took them a year to realize they cannot do it in plain HTML. Hahahaha!

  18. Jake says:
    April 12, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    All it says is that “At age 13 they taught themselves HTML…” It doesn’t stay they stopped there.

  19. Me says:
    April 12, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    #11 They’re Douchebags who deserve everything they DON’T get…

  20. Anonymous says:
    April 15, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    can i marry both of them?

  21. Anonymous says:
    April 15, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    shorter: we are less loathsome than zuckerberg

  22. Tmsing4u says:
    May 16, 2011 at 5:45 am

     i think that anyone has the right  to have an idea but when some one  nicely invites u 2  help and offers a nice deal you have the right 2 accept it of regects  it but 2 take it and make it your own for popularity is ingenius cause you simply did not have the same idea or you would have done it first they trusted u and 4 the justice in this case was blinded by billions$$$$$$ best wishes 2 both partys allthough without the cofounder input  it never would have been launched. face book is just another site in a world that is bigger than its site therefor many new ideas could be launched on this information highway so i heard there going  2 close the face on the book with a new look lol…….

    1. Anonymous says:
      June 6, 2011 at 11:32 pm

      WINKLEVOSS BS. none of it was their idea, why did FB give them 65 million? That isn’t exactly hush money its  fraud and extortion .the WINKLEVOSS new that zuckerberg stole the idea facebook and fb was not there idea or zuck
      . In the high-powered atmosphere of Harvard, it wasn’t any trouble for Zuckerberg to steal the idea facebook and probably to the cheers of his professors and classmates DUSTIN+ CHRIS +CAMERON AND TAYLOR WINKLEVOSS AND CHICKENS; PIGS AND GOATS AARON GREENSPAN DELUSION AUTHORITASAaron J. Greenspan says that while he was a student at Harvard, he came up with the idea for Facebook, piss of .AARON GREENSPAN AND THE WINKLEVOSSneed to be charged with criminal fraud in connection with facebook; you now how MZ stole the idea facebook !

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