I saw this video today and it cracks me up because it makes you realize how stupid your tweets are.

I don’t know why I tweet except that it’s faster than blogging and I can make inane comments about…well, inane bs I wouldn’t bother to put on my blog. When I read other people feeds, I find myself often thinking to myself, I must stop following this person because I find him/her incredibly uninteresting, but never follow through with the unfollowing. My favorite tweeters are those who a) use whole sentences and express complete thoughts. Each tweet is short, yes, but I don’t want to read something no matter how short that doesn’t freaking make any sense about anything! And I like tweeters who b) are funny, and c) don’t tweet too often. Not every single tweet is interesting, but as long as the good ones are really good, I can overlook the lame ones. I really need to stop following about 80 of the 90 or so people I follow.

Here’s a really short list of my favorites (btw, you can view my inane feed at http://twitter.com/sfkat) in no particular order:

• @Steve_Buscemi: he is usually quite hilarious
• @yahoo: don’t care about most of their tweets but the “Spiking in search” ones are interesting (wonder if Google does this, too?)
• @trent_reznor: the only famous person I follow simply because he’s Trent Reznor (I follow other famous people but usually not for long because believe it or not, famous people can be boring — or at least their tweets are). His tweets are actually usually pretty funny and he’s a tech geek too so bonus sexy points.
• @PenelopeTrunk: she’s funny and writes well formatted tweets (i.e complete sentences and thoughts). Plus she’s a little neurotic and I like her.
• @dooce: same as Penelope Trunk: she’s funny and writes well. Plus she’s pregnant and bitchy and I like her for it.

Wow, I can only come up with a list of five. I need to follow some new people. But there are a variety of reasons I follow people. I know them (e.g co-workers and friends), they’re local, tweet news, or are industry related (tech geek news/people), etc. So no, not every person I follow makes me laugh but they’re interesting for other reasons.