“I just want everyone to know what I am doing in 140 characters or less!” Shouts a man as he is wrestled to the ground by the authorities in what is the second day in a bizarre string of riots surrounding the popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter.

Protesters are literally taking to the streets of Madrid, in what many have called the most outrageous outpouring of web angst since the IM Wars of ‘99, and police have only now begun to get a hold on the situation.

A police officer speaking on account of anonymity told TF Europe:

We don’t get it, we didn’t even know there were this many people in Madrid.  Where have they all been, how have they been communicationg? How did they get organized?

Protesters have been seen ruining property, attempting to take over an Amazon warehouse, and carrying signs bearing the face of popular tech guru Dave Winer, along with the words “Winer’s not Failers.”  Surprisingly enough, we report once again on PETA, who have joined in solidarity, carrying signage and chanting “Save the Whale.”

When inquired as to the events that led up to the riots, one of the protesters had this to say:

Well, when the last fail whale happened, I was basically calling my friends forty times every hour to let them know, in 140 letters or less, what I was doing, but my phone bill sky rocketed.  So then we all just met downtown and started doing it, only it sucked trying to have a real conversation in 140 characters or less.  That, combined with being out on the street with no sleep for the past four days and well, things got a little violent. Wait- how many characters was that?

It’s a complex situation, however, most agree that the problem is centered around the fact that authorities are so out of touch, they don’t even know what the demands are, nor how they might strike a comprise with the amazing number of users over the ordeal.

When asked of their demands, a representative for a group we spoke with told us:

All we want is to be able to tell an unlimited amount of people what we are doing, in 140 characters or less, free of charge, via someone else’s API, when ever we want, from an unlimited number of sources, all the time. Right. Fucking. Now.

You may remember our more recent coverage of Google extending it’s 4-1-1 service to it’s cloud.  At the time, we here at TechFaux were a twitter over how we might see the thing first hand.  Well, today we learned that we can finally stop trying to build our own jet engine, because Virgin Airlines and Google announced that they have built one for us, and TF has been invited to take a test flight!

Before hopping on a Virgin Airship and rocketing toward the cloud, I sat down across a laptop from Walter S. Mossberg, my Personal Technology Columnist, and a close friend, who warned me that since The Cloud was such a powerful atmosphere to exist in, where our normal functions can be completed much more rapidly, I could expect to age at a much faster rate. Expected side effects of this aging could include balding, advanced PC use, irrelevant blogging, a growing feeling of self importance, and a job as a Personal Technology Columnist.

Luckily for me, Virgin has installed a series of satellites that shoot Facebook-blocking WiFi to slow the effects of this process (it also blocks Scobble’s friendfeed).

Update: TF has received this stunning image of the first flight to The Cloud-

Remember when Myspace was sold for $580 million in cash and everybody began to create their niche social networks based on a similar platform?

We started seeing social networks for pets, social networks for toddlers, and Myspacey social networks for just about any niche demographic you could possibly imagine.

So it makes sense then that with Twitter’s massive popularity comes the same niche fragmentations from microblogging startups.

Think of Prettyr as “Twitter for women to tell each other how pretty they look.”  If it seems like too niche of a market, you might want to reconsider.  The startup just signed the terms to their $6 million Series A, led by San Fransisco-based Aquinas Capital.

Prettyr’s strongest asset is their ability to break down Twitter’s simplicity even further.  Users are brought to a screen with pull down menus and a submit button, only being given the choice to give an adjective of how the other woman looks, and choose what article of clothing they think looks that adjective.

Techfaux was just sent these exclusive screenshots (Click to enlarge):

And the Prettyr ladies were even nice enough to offer Techfaux readers 500 beta invites.

Just mention “Techfaux” in the referral form at Prettyr and they’ll send an invite right over.

Plurk, the charitable organization that has recently developed a microblogging platform for autistic children, first took Twitter by storm.  Their second step is the only logical one:  Seesmic.

There is already a great deal of bad blood between the two companies.  For instance, Plurk first launched with a well-thought out and perfectly executed publicity stunt to entertain their disabled young audience.  See screenshot below (click for larger size):

Loic Lemeur, Seesmic’s founder and CEO was obviously outraged by this stunt, and outlined his grievances in his blog.

Plurk responded by quietly removing the defamatory profile.

But was once personal is now business:  Plurk has announced a quick duck and weave into the video microblogging space, directly taking on Seesmic as a competitor.  The service is called Smurk and is currently in private beta.

TechFaux contacted Lemeur for comment, and he responded with the video below.

Always enigmatic, that Loic, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted on what happens between the lines between these two video microblogging giants.

Twitter, the web’s ugly duckling, has officially announced via press release what bloggers everywhere have anticipated since 2007.

The document, which outlines their new strategies to not only make a little money but to also officially make a lot of money introduces a business model which to date has never been seen on the internet.

Essentially, Twitter is announcing a price-per-visit model which will rely neither on display advertising or sales.

“For every page view of our website, we will be paid $1 USD.”  Said Twitter cofounder Biz Stone.  He went on further to clarify the gray feathers of their fine bird.  “If the site is out of service or down for some reason, we will be paid only 75 cents per page view.  Even though some like I would argue that a page view is a page view, our investors have determined that the 25% drop in payment will encourage us to keep the website up.”

Interesting.  But what about API calls?  Says Biz:

“API calls are not page views, but rather they are API calls.  Therefore, API calls will result in a payment to Twitter of 50 Cents.  If the API call results in a page view–up to three degrees of referral–the page view will result in the ordinary page view payment of $1USD because it’s a page view.”

Sounds like they’ve thought this all out thoroughly.  But where’s the money coming from?

Biz was unavailable for comment, so cofounder ev @ed us:

“Frm the invstrs.”