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  • The Genius Bar, Lance Armstrong, and Bongos

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Nickelback, the UFC, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Pottery Barn, Puerto Rico, and the iPhone 5

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Bruce Willis, Paradise City, and Radio Shack

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Limp Bizkit, Pineapple Express, and Whiskey

    Limp Bizkit, Pineapple Express, and Whiskey

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Powerball, Marijuana, and Jerry Sandusky

    Powerball, Marijuana, and Jerry Sandusky

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • David Copperfield, Dubstep, and Self-Driving Cars

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Groupon, Chad Johnson, and Gambler’s Anonymous

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Jennifer Aniston, Pasta, and Shark Week

    Jennifer Aniston, Pasta, and Shark Week

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • The Olympics Generated More Than 150 Million Tweets

    Now that the London 2012 summer games have come to a close, Twitter is releasing some figures that shine a light on just how gigantic a role social media played in this year’s Olympics. 2012 is no doubt the first ever Twitter-fueled Olympics, as the amount of engagement on the site dwarfed anything seen in the 2008 Games in Beijing. More tweets concerning the Olympics were coming in on single days before the opening ceremony than came in during the entire 2088 Games.

    Twitter did their part to get people excited about the Olympics by launching their own dedicated event page.

    And now, Twitter is saying that the Olympics generated more than 150 million tweets from start to finish (a 16-day period).

    Among those 150 million+ tweets, it was Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt who ran away with the show (apologies). Bolt was responsible for the two biggest tweet-spiking events during competition. He garnered 80,000+ tweets per minutes when he won the 200m dash and 74,000+ TPM when he beat the field in the 100m dash.

    The rest of the top five TPM moments belonged to Andy Murray (men’s tennis gold medalist), the Jamaican relay team (4×100 gold medalists), and Team USA (basketball, after beating Spain for the gold) – in that order.

    Twitter also reports that ten different athletes generated more than 1 million tweets each. The aforementioned Usain Bolt leads the pack, followed by Michael Phelps, Tom Daley, Ryan Lochte, Gabby Douglas, Andy Murray, Kobe Bryant, Yohan Blake, Lee Chong Wei, and LeBron James.

    Of all the sports, it was soccer that reigned supreme with over 5 million tweets.

    But in all, it wasn’t an Olympic athlete (or even a sport) that drew the most TPM. That title belongs to the Spice Girls, whose closing ceremony performance brought in a whopping 116,000 TPM.

  • Twitter’s Been Buzzing About the Olympics [INFOGRAPHIC]

    During the Olympic games, there’s a good chance that somewhere, on some channel, there’s some coverage nearly all day long. The Olympic games are also a popular global event with a lot of built-in drama. Couple all of that with the fact that Americans have turned to social media for their Olympic news (thanks to NBC’s delay), and you can see why Olympic-themed tweets have dominated Twitter for the past two weeks.

    Social integration platform Mass Relevance decided to look at the Twitter activity from the first 10 days of the games – and whoa are the game popular in the world of 140 characters.

    In the first ten days, over 28.4 million tweets went out that were somehow related to the Olympics. That’s an average of nearly 2,000 a minute.

    It’s no surprise that swimming legend Michael Phelps was the most talked-about athlete in the games – but he was followed closely by Lebron James. U.K. Diver Tom Daley, fatest man on Earth Usain Bolt, and U.S.A. baller Kevin Durant rounded out the top 5.

    Swimming was the most-talked about sport on Twitter. Of course, swimming was only showcased for those first days. Gymnastics still had events to go on August 7th and 8th, a time period that this doesn’t take into account.

    Check out the full infographic below:

  • OCD, Olympic Athletes, and Tamagotchis

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Mars Rover, Randy Travis, and Laziness

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • NASA, Hipster Doctors, and Temple Run

    NASA, Hipster Doctors, and Temple Run

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Mars Rover, Wikipedia, and Breaking Bad

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Total Recall, Michael Phelps, and Siri

    Total Recall, Michael Phelps, and Siri

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Wesley Snipes, Diet Coke, and $800 iPhones

    Wesley Snipes, Diet Coke, and $800 iPhones

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Guy Fieri, Juggalos, and Kix Cereal

    Guy Fieri, Juggalos, and Kix Cereal

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Weight Watchers, Snoop Lion, and The Hobbit

    Weight Watchers, Snoop Lion, and The Hobbit

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!

  • Swiss Athlete Expelled From Olympics For Racist Tweet

    Another Olympian has been sent home from the London Games because of his inability to control his thumbs.

    Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella was dismissed from the Olympics on Monday as the result of a tweet he posted after his team suffered defeat at the hands of the South Koreans.

    Reuters reports that the offensive tweet, which was deemed racist and highly offensive began “I punch you, South Koreans, go burn…” Another report claims that the tweet referred to the Korean players as “a bunch of mentally handicapped retards.”

    “Je les tous Defonce Coréens, allez vous tous Bruler, bande de trisos!” he reportedly tweeted.

    Morganella’s account has been deactivated, but Le Matin grabbed a screencap of another tweet directed toward the South Koreans before that could happen:

    In a statement, head of the Swiss Olympic team Gian Gilli said that,

    “As a member of the Swiss Olympic mission he gravely discriminated, insulted and violated the dignity of the South Korean football team and the South Korean people.”

    Morganella has officially lost all of his Olympic accreditation and will not compete in any more of the 2012 London Games.

    The official social media guidelines put out by the International Olympic Committee state that all tweets, Facebook posts, blog posts, etc. “should at all times conform to the Olympic spirit and fundamental principles of Olympism as contained in the Olympic Charter, be dignified and in good taste, and not contain vulgar or obscene words or images.”

    I think we can agree the Morganella’s tweet was outside the realm of good taste.

    Twitter is a minefield for public figures, especially athletes – and these Olympics are showing it. Before the Games even began, Greek triple-jumper Voula Papachristou was banned from participating thanks to a racist tweet of her own.

    “With so many Africans in Greece … at least the West Nile mosquitos will eat homemade food!!!” she tweeted.

    Although Papachristou has claimed that her punishment was a little too severe, Morganella has apologized and said that he accepts the consequences of his tweet.

  • Goodnight Moon, The Olympics, and Lessons From Porn

    Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.

    And what better way to wind-down the work day than with a selection of some of the day’s most entertaining tweets.

    Enjoy!