OK, which one of you is @BARTSIMSON_REAL?

imna buy her book right now

the thing i love about that tweet is that there are so many ways to get that joke subtly wrong and have it come off forced and dumb. everything about the punctuation, the phrasing, the inflection has to be absolutely right to pull it off.

yes masterful use of punctuation there

Patricia Lockwood ‏@TriciaLockwood
Sext: I am a Dan Brown novel and you do me in my plot-hole. "Wow," I yell in ecstasy, "this makes no sense at all"

haha shes the best

not really a fan of her tweets or extranapkins, a little too effete, but that is totally a moral failing on my part

shes my fav tweeter i think

what happened to @famouscrab?

heard he was working on something better

heard he was working on ::something muffled:: twitter

is val kilmer weird twitter?? https://twitter.com/ValEKilmer/status/292783325494509568

VALibu, California

that's almost exactly like a James Ferraro tweet

Cool Niceman ‏@dogboner
the South Side Mouth Sore Boyz are the shittiest gang of all time. Are they on twitter. fuck them

h/t to JBR, @seinfeld2000 putting in some work

that's JBR?

no, just posted about it

come on admit it

@egg_dog tho

did you catch @seinfeld2000's sfj dig?

the ilxest sentence

WORLDS COLLIDE

Seinfeld Current Day ‏@Seinfeld2000
Gerge (Sasha Frere Joans) write SCATHING review of nu Gotye song in the New Yorkers, it make him feel a bit better abt having a womans name

omg.

http://twitter.com/young_laureate/status/226075764066508800

lawl who is this

― price lo matalan (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 July 2012 10:52 (6 months ago)

any advances on this

@electrolemon is next level

jerry cat aol.com ‏@dogboner
*is a product of millions of years of evolution* *born into the most technologically advanced civilization in history* *refreshes website*

solitary tweets that effortlessly summarize the spirt of twitter

joke twitter/weird twitter crossover comix, digging these

http://twitterthecomic.tumblr.com/

i like the tweets but the art is awwwwfulll

none of these are nearly as funny when drawn. its not the jokes, i guess, but the tweet construction itself, fitting stuff in that small amount of characters, brevity and evocativeness, etc., that makes them really work.

really underlines the weird twitter is like poetry argument.

i think they'd be funny if the art was better

nah, the art is really nice, and fairly twitter-style even.

but this is really how twitter-jokes should translate to comic form: http://wolfpuppy.net/comic/1.html

(all of them i mean, not that one in particular)

http://wolfpuppy.net/comic/16.png

it warms my heart to imagine ppl on different continents appreciating this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEaH7y5CQAASDvd.jpg

is that andrew cuomo?

idk i just think the art style is just visually unpleasant and makes me not want to look at it?

i'm with you

http://www.theawl.com/2013/03/spy-twitter-is-weird-twitte

finally some twitter shit i can get into

has nothing to do with the art, literal representations of jokes are never, ever funny

I think it does - I could see most Perry Bible Fellowship comics working as tweets but obviously the art really helps there

the best parts of some of these tweets are entirely in the phrasing and the description.

i'm not racist, but, *cranes neck to see if anyone's around. keeps craning. head unscrews entirely. out of the hole pour jewels & mysteries*

this is almost entirely a verbal joke. it's a verbal joke about an image, but the verbal turn is what gives it the action, or actually the multiple verbal turns, in the shift from direct address to action, and then the shift from craning to unscrewing, etc. the way it builds up the gag is all about how those few words are chosen. and how does one draw a "mystery" anyway?

they're in large part jokes about how we communicate in txts and on twitter. just like a hueg part of pbf strips are jokes about genres of comic and representational art, not the raw punchlines themselves.

okay stop

i guess you'd have to cite examples but to me the art part of PBF is a great element of the overall presentation but not really integral to the joke.

meanwhile I think most UtilityLimb tweets are unfuckable for those reasons, but some of those comics seem like they'd work with better art

it's fan art

that's why it's bad

sorry but great tweets lend themselves to overthinking.