I thought most Twitter users were obnoxious enough to scream things themselves, but I guess not. Send an @ reply to the Twitter account ScreamUrTweets and some dude will scream it for you — from a mountain top, moreover. That's a major upgrade. Your tweet could go from never being read by anyone to being screamed really loud… and never being heard either.

I wonder what would happen if I wrote him a Tweet in all caps.

[via The Daily What]

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I was reflecting today on the guy who runs that Twitter account @ShitMyDadSays, Justin Halpern.

He's like hugely famous now!  People want to give him book deals and TV shows and interview him and stuff, all because he has some silly Twitter account of garbage his dad said.  Not stuff he said!  I can write stuff other people said!

So let the rip-off begin…

My father was never big into cursing.  He'd be really upset it I used the word "shit" in a such a public forum as the Internet.  So I decided I'd just go with the word "poop."  @PoopMyDadSays was still available on Twitter, so…

Check it out: twitter.com/poopmydadsays.  It's hilarious!

HBO mini-series producers, you can just direct message me on Twitter.  Thanks.

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Want more signs of an impending apocalypse?

Our office elevators feature the "Captivate Network" — a "digital programming and advertising network [that] informs and entertains business professionals at work."  Basically, it's TV screens in the elevators that display news headlines, sports scores and other things people don't have time to read while traveling a mere 3 floors.

But today, as I'm heading up to the office, I was shocked and appalled to see it displaying the current top Twitter trends.

RIP Patrick Swayze   Kanye West   Dirty Dancing….

Alright, Elevator.  We already have Twitter trends on our phones, on our computers and spewing out of every 13-year-old on the globe.  Please, let our brief elevator rides each day be our one moment of salvation from the mayhem!

I never thought I'd see the day where I missed elevator music.

The Daily Telegraph had a sassy little article on Friday which listed 50 things that are being killed by the internet. The internet is an amazing place and a newspaper is ironically dissecting what it's killing. Well, I'll gladly trade "Memory" (#13 for the Telegraph) for a few literal versions of music videos of yore. Off the top of my head, I have 15 things that are thankfully being resurrected from the dead by the internet:

1. Never Gonna Give You Up
2. Geeks
3. Clip shows
4. Old infomercials
5. Tron
6. Wolf t-shirts
7. Yellow journalism (blogs)
8. The trailer for The Shining
9. Patrick Duffy
10. T-rex
11. GI Joe PSAs
12. Robocop and
13. Unicorns
14. Pirates
15. Bill Cosby

What did I miss?

WBBM 780 in Chicago posted this report yesterday:

"DePaul University will offer a journalism class this fall focused on Twitter.  The class is called 'Digital Editing: From Breaking News to Tweets.'"

And you thought your degree in Philosophy was worthless!

Here are a few other courses I wouldn't be surprised to see soon in the DePaul register.

• Marketing Strategies: Redefining the Idea of Friend to Promote on Facebook
• Advanced Music Industry Workshop: Salvage Your Dying Myspace Network
• Family Dynamics: Understanding Psychology Through Watching Sitcom Reruns on Hulu
• Human Anatomy: What YouPorn Can Teach Us About the Reproductive Organs

[via The Daily What]

In the world of Twitter, you know you've finally made it when you cross the 1,000,000 followers mark.  According to TwitterCounter, currently 84 people have breached that elusive threshold, the latest being Michael Ian Black (star of Comedy Central's Michael & Michael Have Issues).

Next up appears to be Weird Al Yankovic.

But crossing the million follower mark is quickly becoming passe.  Like those previously impressive millionaires who are now some of the poorest people I could ever imagine, once a group gets large enough, their exclusivity becomes diminished.

Getting 1,000,000 followers is easy: Droves of people can go and follow you at any time.

But, following 1,000,000 people — that's a different story entirely.

Estimating that it takes about 3 seconds to click on a "follow" button (including some load time, assuming Twitter actually loads), even if you started following new people 24 hours a day, it would take 35 days to cross that monumental "1,000,000 following" mark.

Working at it for a respectable 8 hours a day, it would still take you about 4 months to be following a million people.  And that assumes people don't block your creepy ass!

Right now, Barack Obama is the only one even close to a million with over 750,000 following.  (Where does he find the time to read all those status updates?!)

So, wanna be the next famous tweeter?  Go for the next grand horizon: One million following!

It's selfish to have other people as your followers.  Society will appreciate the compassion you show by following other people.

Why not get started on your quest for 1,000,000 by following Daniel Tosh?!

Tosh.0 airs Thursdays at 10pm / 9c.