Kevyn Smith and Jeremy Johnson have been turning tweets into songs for six months, but it took a fake snake to clue me in to @wesingyourtweets.
My Favorite Favorites
Four years of Twitter yields a lot of wit and wisdom. Here are 50 tweets that caught my eye.
Social Collider
A Twitter visualization project using javascript and web browsers is inspired by particle colliders to reveal the hidden connection between tweets.
The Things for Which We are Thankful
Jeff Clark tracked the words for which Twitter members expressed thanks. Sadly, Rick Astley didn’t make the cut.
Creative Uses of Twitter
Add baseball and laundry to the list of interesting uses of a Twitter account.
The Twitties
By the time the second annual Twitties rolls around, there will be over a billion new candidates for a handful of awards.
The Obama Stream
I compiled snapshots of the tweets Wednesday night from locals covering the Barack Obama campaign stop in Bloomington, Indiana. They included the pledges of allegiance and child bearing, as well as a fainting man (who is likely this guy from Comedy Central, so watch Thursday’s show). I’ll save commentary (except my own below, in tweet form) for a later date.