Weird Twitter
Weird Twitter is a loose genre of Internet humour dedicated to publication of humorous material on the social network Twitter that is disorganised and hard to explain.[1][2]
Related to anti-humour and created primarily by Twitter users who are not professional humourists, Weird Twitter-style jokes may be presented as disorganised thoughts, rather than in a conventional joke format or punctuated sentence structure.[3][4][5] The genre is based around the restriction of Twitter's 140-character message length, requiring jokes to be quite short.[6] The genre may also include repurposing of overlooked material on the internet, such as parodying posts made by spambots or deliberately amateurish images created in Paint.[7][8]
References
- ↑ Herrman, John; Notopoulos, Katie. "Weird Twitter: The Oral History". Buzzfeed. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Knoblauch, Max. "The 21 Weirdest Twitter Accounts". Mashable. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ↑ Douglas, Nick. "“Weird Twitter” explained". Daily Dot. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Losse, Kate. "Weird Corporate Twitter". The New Inquiry. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Flynn, John. "The Normal Dudes Of ‘Weird Twitter’". Metro Silicon Valley. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Gallagher, Brenden. "A Survey of The Best and Weirdest of Weird Twitter". Complex. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Sun, Scott. "An Odd, Uplifting 'Alien': Meet The Man Behind A 'Weird Twitter' Star". All Tech Considered. NPR. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ↑ Usher, Tom. "What It's Really Like to Be a Popular 'Weird Twitter' Personality". Vice. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
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