Carolee’s 5 Favorite Twitter Accounts
As it turns out, assembling a list of favorite Twitter accounts exposes me as a total nerd.
Like Emily, who provided her list of favorites here, I also follow a cupcake tweeter. I am so inept with baking that I marvel (to admit drool would be too unbecoming) at the yummy photos from @cupcakeblog. I had no idea people could be so creative with frosting! But unlike Emily, whose list reveals her to be worldly, hip and informed, I am afraid my list tells the sad truth: I sometimes snort when I laugh.
Here, in all their geeky glory, are my “5 Favorite Twitter Accounts:”
Poetry Magazine (@poetrymagazine): Sometimes @poetrymagazine tweets events or links to articles (What lawyers can learn from poets! http://bit.ly/qRPDKR), but it mostly fills its Twitter stream with tiny bits of poetry that stand all on their own as interesting and enticing. @poetrymagazine takes the 140 character limit and uses it as a telescope, plucking something from the vast universe (lines and lines of poems) and bringing it up close. The tweet becomes a micropoem that makes you want more: The mask? Because we were never ugly / enough. —Bryan D. Dietrich http://bit.ly/udaW0y. And since the tweet contains a link to the full poem, there is instant gratification.
Someecards (@someecards): Ever feel like you’re the last one to know stuff? Friends always beat you to the punch by posting trendy, funny content before you? By following @someecards’ Twitter stream, sometimes I am the first to annoy entertain my friends and followers with something snarky. For example, @someecards recently tweeted this: A handy hipster flowchart that everyone but hipsters can agree with. http://bit.ly/w1JUmn. What wannabe funny girl’s repertoire is complete without some hipster humor?
Steve Martin (@stevemartintogo): Speaking of humor, I very often like mine to come out of the blue. @stevemartintogo tweets funny, totally random things, like, The conquistadors are back, and this time they set up an lemonade stand on my front lawn. Do I call police or simply attack? and Hard to maintain my X-Ray vision usage for only good. Limiting using for good to ten hour day. Following this “wild and crazy guy” on Twitter is always a delightful surprise. He interacts with followers, and he plays the banjo. I wonder if he does them at the same time …
Wordnik (@wordnik): Word of the Day: hag-ridden: Afflicted with nightmares or unreasonable fears; entangled, involved. http://bit.ly/vZEIGz. Enough said? I love grammar (I also follow @APStylebook) and vocabulary. Yes, I was *that* girl in school who loved the weekly vocab quizzes. With @wordnik, the thrill is back. List of the Day: I Am Evil: wicked, diabolical, demonic, corrupt, vile, infernal, bad, nefarious, sinister, satanic http://bit.ly/szwqTV. Who doesn’t love synonyms for “diabolical?” The account even scans Twitter and pop culture for great usage or blunders: Points for “volumptuous” though. RT @HuffingtonPost: Snooki doesn’t know who J.K. Rowling is (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/sPkqXq.
PBS (@PBS): PBS produces so many interesting and fascinating shows. Like all of you, I’m busy. I work full-time, mother three sons and feed a serious poetry habit (see #1 above). I’m always missing out on great content. But the @PBS Twitter stream is an easy way to catch wonderful stories (Stream 1st episode of @novapbs’s Fabric of the Cosmos via our free iPad & iPhone apps before its 11/2 premiere: http://go.pbs.org/7aCWc) and participate in the contemporary conversation (Quiz: Are Thou Learned? 10 questions to test your knowledge of the #Shakespeare authorship debate. http://go.pbs.org/7duWx). And check this out: PBS explores the roots of American music with “Give Me the Banjo” narrated by @stevemartintogo #PBSarts. How perfect is that? Could Twitter be the organizing principle mankind has been seeking for all time?
