Twitter funnies

I have been slow to pick up on The Twitter (he says ironically). What is the point of following hundreds of feeds? There's sooo much inanity in most, how does one find individual tweets worth reading? They're like needles in a haystack.

Furthermore I prefer the format of long form blogs (insert 140 character joke). My google reader is beyond overloaded already--there really isn't time in a day for much more.

But I've made a Twitter list of several feeds I think are amusing enough to follow in toto.

The revolution will be twittered

Follow here and here, nothing else is keeping up with events.

P.S. Up till now I've been a twitter skeptic and had no use for following any feeds, preferring to read longer-form blogs. But I think we've found twitter's killer app: resisting tyranny and censorship in real time.

TheNextTwitter

(via Viral Video Chart)

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