Who is Worth Following on Twitter?

Twitter can provide a feed of the day’s news, or a quick comic remark. Some groups make too many posts (NPR) so I dropped them. Some are not funny (Colbert). I do enjoy the NZ Spokesbird (@Spokesbird). Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher both keep me interested. I like the Washington Post’s daily tweets from the American Civil War.

Who else can keep me amused on Twitter?

Conan and Daniel Tosh are pretty damn amusing.
Also, I don’t care for her Twitter, for Sarah Silverman is funny on Facebook.

Re Sarah Silverman. I only tweet for work so I don’t really use twitter much but looking at it, it looks like she might have the same feed on both accounts now, so ignore what I said above since I only follow her on Facebook.

Conan and Tosh are the only two non-work people I follow (and I only follow like 10 people total) so when I go on twitter once a day (for work) I have something amusing to look at.

OK, so I added “Daniel Tosh,” whoever he is. I hope for great things.

The most reliably interesting people I follow on Twitter are @JSCarroll, author Jonathon Carroll, and @charltonbrooker, columnist Charlie Brooker, although Americans may not find him funny.

@wilw is consistently entertaining, as is @ActuallyNPH (Wil Wheaton and Neil Patrick Harris).

I also follow @NathanFillion and @pattonoswalt.

If you’re politically liberal, follow @BorowitzReport. Have no idea what the equivalent would be for conservatives.

Funny regardless of political affiliation: @SteveMartinToGo; @TheContentFarm

Interesting links: @brainpicker, @openculture

Look at the recommendations they give you, you’ll find more people to your liking. I follow a lot of word nerds and editors, e.g. – following one leads you to others.

[mod]And I’m going to move this over to IMHO.[/mod]

Good luck on that front.

Probably the twitter I get the most enjoyment out of is FakeAPStylebook.

Definitely one of my faves (ContentFarm is by the same folks) – but I wasn’t sure if anyone out of the biz would find it as amusing as I do.

I follow Conan and Stephen Colbert (@stephenathome). I laugh at almost every post they make.

Oh! Paula Poundstone, let’s give her a try too.

Don’t forget @TheOnion – twitter was made for them.

From @thecontentfarm:

**someecards **is funny, and they link to various other funny tweets/Facebook misidentifications/hilarious graffiti/etc.
Through them I’ve followed clarkekant, **pourmecoffee **and RexHuppke

I like following stephenfry and GayObama (but he doesn’t tweet alot these days)