@PCOSmachine: If only machines were really this witty

 

It was the night after the elections and almost every individual in the country with an active Twitter account was glued to their streams for the latest news. Tweets about Erap not voting for a Vice President, not even his partner Binay (as clearly seen on pictures and, later on, videos), squees about how hot Gibo  is piloting a helicopter and various complaints about the long lines and malfunctioning PCOS machines dominated the cyberspace until one account managed to catch the attention of nearly all the Filipino techies online on Twitter.

@PCOS machine 's (http://twitter.com/pcosmachine) hilarious tweets caught the hearts and the RT buttons of the voters online making it gain more than a thousand of followers within an hour and 11,000 to date of this post. It even garnered several articles online from respectable news channels in the country.

What if PCOS machine were human? - ABS-CBNNEWS.com
PCOS machines don't just scan ballots but tweet - Yahoo! Philippines

Tweets like this got famous overnight thanks to the blessing of retweeting.

Can somebody please send me water? I'm overheating and I'm thirsty after eating all these ballots. ktnx5:45 PM May 10th via web

No joke, just read a ballot with a CHECK mark for Villar. Also had a marking, "baby james". Weird.6:58 PM May 10th lt;/em>via Tweetie

Why does @PCOSmachine have a Twitter account?! =)))))))#halalan /via @pingchung91 - well, I hav wifi, might as well make the most out of it7:11 PM May 10th via Tweetie

"Is your @PCOSmachine a spitter or a swallower?" /via @sedriddick- under d law, we cannot swallow, we hav 2 spit it out after. Unless ur hot

A moment of silence please for my fellow PCOS machines who perished in Camarines Sur in the line of duty. They were so young and expensive.7:29 PM May 10th via Tweetie

My #1 goal in life is to ensure a clean, honest, and orderly elections. 2nd is to remove Justin Beiber from trending topics.#halalan7:50 PM May 10th via Tweetie

"Sana na-void yun ballot ni GMA. Why didn't you eat her, too @PCOSmachine?" /via @tatiny - coz she's spoiled already.8:06 PM May 10th via Tweetie

To everyone complaining about us PCOS machines overheating: have u been to the Philippines? It's freaking hot here.

"@PCOSmachine if u are not a machine, who will u vote for president and why?" /via @kingofthefranks - Gordon. Transformer. Duh.

"@PCOSmachine Where are you gonna go now since elections are over?" /via @zetweet - bodega. Unless some1 has ₱120,000 to spare, buy me pls!

Including MY (probably) MOST FAMOUS TWEET yet. 

@PCOSmachine Why do you look like a large trashcan with screen?" /via @clarriscent - don't judge me please, I am not a book.7:12 PM May 10th via Tweetie

I must admit, it's weird seeing my tweet get 'featured' by blog posts regarding the said twitter account. My question was innocent enough (those machines really do resemble black garbage cans, most people agree) and his reply was LMFAO, in net speak, worthy. Yay for Filipino sense of humor!

However, it made me realize how powerful social networking sites can be and that every tweet or post you make in any of them (Facebook, Twitter) can have a lot of impact especially these days where everyone is glued more to their monitors rather than on TV screens.

Going back to the topic, I'm glad that something / somebody managed to cool off the tension building up the night after the first ever automated election in the country. One thing we all could count on is that the ever-so-reliable Filipino sense of humor be present even in the most distressing of times.