Just when when you thought inanity had reached its apex, enter Twittascope, a site that brings horoscopes to your twitter feed.

How does it work? You go to their site, enter your birthdate or choose your astrological sign, and Twittascope will give you your horoscope for the day; enter your Twitter credentials and Twittascope will, for some reason, post it to your Twitter account.

When Moses Ma wrote last month in his Psychology Today blog, The Tao of Innovation, that Twitter is "really just a massive social project", something didn't sit quite right with me. It isn't that his article on understanding the psychology of twitter is wrong, necessarily, but rather that it just feels...incomplete.

His article, which examines the psychology of Twitter in the context of Maslow's heirarchy of needs and the slightest whiff of daseinsanalysis, touches on some fascinating points, but in the end ultimately fails to posit a...

Brevity is the soul of wit. At least, that's what Shakespeare tried to teach us - and he wasn't particularly brief about it. What would the poet have thought of Twitter, where every joke is 140 characters or less? We'll take a look at the funniest people on Twitter, the folks who put the "wit" in "twit," and the people largely responsible for my flagging productivity at work (actually, one of them is a cat). The Funniest Tweeple I Know 5) The Mime

You'd think, after a while, a mime who posts silent tweets would start to get...

When Ashton Kutcher wanted to tell wife Demi Moore that he loved her, a phone call just didn't cut it - the two actors are on currently living on different sides of the planet. Email certainly wasn't going to have the impact and flair that Kutcher is known for. Finally the "That 70's Show" actor and "Punk'd" creator turned to Twitter to adequately express his love.

As most of us Tweeple well know, there are probably as many Twitter haters out there as there are Twitterphiles; sometimes it even seems as though there might be more of the former. But from whence comes this loathing of all things Twitter? Why do people think Twitter serves no purpose? Let's take a look and see if we can't get to the bottom of these Twitter naysayers and the myths they perpetrate.

Myth #1: Twitter is comprised solely of status updates.

Facebook threw a new ingredient into the mix this month when they rolled out a new round of homepage changes - but "mixed" is probably a word best used to describe users reactions to the changes.

The redesign, which was, unlike previous Facebook makeovers, was announced well ahead of time, a message appearing on the top of all users' pages a week before the changes, showing what the new homepage would look like. (In the past, Facebook has come under heavy criticism for launching major changes without informing users ahead of time, such as their last "Wall" makeover and their...

Calling Twitter a social network comprised only of "status updates" isn't exactly accurate. Sure, that's how the concept of Twitter started out, an answer to the question "What are you doing?" - but that's certainly not what it's grown into. Indeed, these days, that question has largely become ignored, especially since the majority of Twitter users don't interact with the microblogging platform through its web interface; they interact with it through creative third-party services, micro-applications, and myriad other touch points.

Twitter isn't about "what you're doing" anymore. It...

There's certainly no shortage of web-based Twitter services out there; indeed, one of the strength of the microblogging platform is its highly diversified presentation format - There is only one Facebook, but there are a million ways to view Twitter content. WeFollow is a service that stands out from the rest. The idea is quite simple - submit yourself to a topic-oriented directory of Twitter users.

When Brian Biggs posted an article on his fake-news blog BBSpot about Paid Premium Twitter Accounts, it was supposed to be a joke. The article, which described several "tiers" of premium Twitter accounts, was written in a jocular, informal style, without any outgoing links or citations, and featured some pretty silly monetization plans for the microblogging platform (including one called EmbellishTwit, a service the BBSpot claimed would take a tweet like "Just had a whole wheat bagel and coffee for breakfast," and make it into an imminently more exciting one, like, "Just got in from...