Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, more commonly referred to as the Winklevoss Twins have gained a lot o f notoriety over the years as they continue to claim that Facebook was their idea. Now with their lawsuit behind them the Harvard grads and rowing team members  are poking fun at the entire situation, in a pistachio ad!

Cameron and Tyler appear in a “Wonderful Pistachios” commercial in which one of the brothers cracks a nut while the other asks if anyone else has ever cracked a nut in that manner, at which point they wonder out loud if anyone will try to steal their nut cracking method.

Obviously the commercial is a crack (no pun intended) at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg but I have to admit the fact that Facebook has entered the social consciousness so much that a pistachio company is using their name to sell product is a big solute to the world’s biggest social network.

Here’s the commercial: read more

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, better known to The Social Network viewers as The Winklevoss Twins have decided to end their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.

The twins have for years accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for Facebook when they contracted him to build ConnectU while Zuckerberg was still a student at Harvard University.

In 2008 all parties involved settling the lawsuit for approximately $200 million, however in the last 12 months the twins tried to appeal their settlement while claiming that Zuckerberg defrauded them when paying out based on the value of Facebook stock. read more