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Tweets that make me twitter with laughter.

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I have two friends on Twitter whose short "tweets" (the quickie update messages that are almost like play-by-play mini-blogging) make me laugh.

RoueJ (a retired but still working judge) and Skangus (a person I don't really "know" except through some design work and drive-by Facebook messages).

RoueJ writes about work and a remodeling project. This one, for example. Or this one.

"Your twitters are like a punchline to the judicial system," I said in a message to RoueJ. "Very funny stuff."

"If I couldn't laugh, I'd cry," was the response.

Skangus writes about food and TV and just random, hilarious stuff. Like this one and this one, dealing with weather warnings.

"Your Twitter updates tend to make me hungry 95 percent of the time," I said in a Facebook message to Skangus.

It's a gift to not become a bit pretentious and unfunny on Twitter, since it often morphs into (in the hands of the unfunny, um, like me) something mundane and makes a reader think "do we really care that so-and-so just ate a sandwich?" I've noticed that Twitter has become, for some people (um, like me), a way of force-feeding boring minutae to random public, or, worse yet, a mere blog RSS update which sort of annoys me because that's what my RSS reader is for.

These two use Twitter well. They make me laugh. That's a good thing.

I dumped them on a Google page via RSS feeds, but you should really just check out their profiles.

UPDATE: A friend just sent me a link to this cartoon which deals, very aptly, with Twitter. Hilarious.