Twitter On The TV: America's Best (And Worst) Microblogging Moments (VIDEO)

Who can forget Stephen Colbert making Meredith Vieira squirm by saying "twat" on the "Today Show"? Or Oprah tweeting for the first time? Or Jimmy Kimmel mocking Oprah for tweeting for the first time by changing her text to read "MY TOENAILS TASTE LIKE BUTTERSCOTCH"?

In three short years Twitter has gone from a nonsense word to a nonsense "news" topic, making anchors and pundits alike buzz with glee over what they had for breakfast and what their audience thinks of what they had for breakfast. (Note: It was a bagel)

Everyone from CSPAN to FOX News is getting into the Twitterverse: A place where Ashton Kutcher is the most popular man in the world and Demi Moore saves lives. It's a very dangerous place.

We here at the Huffington Post have compiled the best moments from TV's Twitter coverage for your viewing pleasure. We dare you not to throw up a little.


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Comments

[BannedInBoston]

"Twitter" is the generic activity. A single instance of twitter is a "tweet". Ergo, one who tweets is a "tweeter". Thought you'd like to know.

[BannedInBoston]

Think of the sound a treeful of starlings makes. Hence the name and hence about as interesting.

[LTBROWN]

twitter= the new spying mechanism. lol Track me to twittter.c­om/LTBROWN­. my taxes are all paid in. lol

[badfluffy]

twitter = sharing crap with people.... constantly = you need constant validation for your empty life.

[badfluffy]

yes, i see the irony. you twats still suck.

[BannedInBoston]

Why does that put me in mind of one of my favorite activities? (He tweeted.)

[badfluffy]

tweeting was cool about 3 years ago before the msm started promoting it endlessly. now they are just twats.

[raechel]

Well, one thing about Twitter is that it made me realize that my daily doings aren't nearly as boring as some other folks'. One fella I follow twitters every half hour. I'd block him, but I don't want to hurt his feelings. The article was timely, though. I had just finished setting up my cafe with a Twitter account so I could send out daily specials announcements. At most one per day. Marinated seared tuna steak on grilled bakery Italian with edamame, topped with dressed fresh pea shoots. Omelet with fiddlehead fern, sherried morels, and wild ramps. (Local color)

[Lovelydaze]

I do not "tweet" It bored me to a thousand tears the first day I logged on.

I don't feel out of touch or technologically challenged.
I just don't "follow the leader" because everybody else is doing it.

[ClearingtheAir2010]

Twatting is sooooooo lame

[Palemoon]

I don't see what the big deal is, twitter is just another form of blogging, which is another form of just posting your thoughts online via a public forum like a fidonet, newsgroup, message forum, etc, etc. New name, same t hing.

[arcanepsyche]

Except the Twitter has allowed people to constantly update their "status" which leads to even more people living their lives online instead of in the real world.

It's just sad that people would be so obsessed with what everyone else is doing all the dam time.

[raechel]

I think it's more likely that, as in blogging, everyone's yakking and nobody's listening.

[Ohioan730]

When I was growing up, as soon as something hit the MSM, it was no longer cool with us kids. That meant it was old and played out and time to move on. Look what happened to early metal, hip-hop and alternative rock. The MSM killed it just like they are killing Twitter by being lame.

[Vixter]

Just as Madison Ave. did with the 'hippie' generation. Once it was commercial, it was sooo stale & dated.

I always wondered who had a big enough ego to think that anyone really cares what they had for breakfast. I guess it's like imaginary friends when you were little - except that since people are being twats so often, they don't know how to interact with the human race anymore.

[BannedInBoston]

Some people like it because it's exactly the kind of chatter you hear in cubeland at work, people endless rehearsing what they had for lunch, how the game they watched on TV went, what their kids are doing. The Buddhists call this "monkey mind" and I'm inclined to agree.

[FrankenPC]

We are looking into the gaping maw that is idiocracy. Twitter is the communications medium for the lost. Without conscious thought, mindless blathering is just that. Worthless.

Pretty soon, we will be standing around saying: You like money and sex? I like money and sex. Dude, we should hang out.

FYI: Mike Judge is doing a graduation speech for UCSD June 12th:
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/Mike-Judge-to-Speak-at-UCSD-Graduation-Celebration/x48YpkgnOUSwNetflxzm1A.cspx

[uneeda]

time for the owners of twitter to flog it........before it disappears like a rat down the drain

[BannedInBoston]

I think and hope you're right -- it's a passing fad.

[Bloggerrogr]

Friends don't let friends Twitter. Ever.

[keerod76]

Actually Twitter is quite awesome if you're into social networking. Of course if you're into anti-social networking you could always just jump off a bridge.

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[FrankenPC]

What is social about mindless dribble? Social networking relies on well formed profile data and who-know-who linkages. NOT, zero thought micro blogs.

If I want to listen to single sentence ramblings, I have plenty of people who hang out near my building talking to themselves. Tweet that.

[dmun]

@keerod76:
So, you're saying that if one chooses not to social network online or twitter, then that person should jump off a bridge? What an an amazingly moronic comment.

[arcanepsyche]

I love social networking. I hate Twitter. Did your head just explode?

[badfluffy]

haha! perfect.

[badfluffy]

well sure, because i totally need to know when you are buying groceries or cleaning your fingernails. thanks for sharing.....

[StevieKravitz]

Yeah, took a dump just now, feel great. Time for some Cheetos. :-)

[FrankenPC]

"My Dump was fluffy and slightly greenish. Also, I ate corn last night"

[aphid]

It was a two-flusher. Thinking about FINALLY having my tires rotated later!!