I looked at the promotion for the Twitter book where the author selected the top ten funny postings from Twitter as a way to encourage people to buy the book – but boring was more like it – it convinced me that I’m not missing anything particularly interesting or funny. Here are the three posts out of the ten that I thought were most interesting and funny:
When people pick their “5 people living or dead to have dinner with,” dont they worry they’ll be the most boring person at the meal?
michaelianblack
I attribute most of my good days to a couple of people with voodoo dolls canceling each other out.
TBMimsTheThird
That’s okay. I’ve been meaning to clean that table with a full glass of water for awhile.
fedge
And here’s some other interesting undiscovered posts:
@StockTraderDude (Stock Trader dude)
@Imnoexpert (yours truly)
*** Update 2010:
When PaperMag reported on their creative people issue and printed a few pages of tweets from the artists it was difficult to find anything fun and interesting in their coverage – again, feels like I’m not missing anything. But as one of the founders of Twitter has said in an interview with Fast Company magazine, “There are over ninety million tweets per day, and the vast majority you do not care about.” Agreed.