You may be taking your Skype instant messaging and video calls or your iPhone FaceTime for granted, but way back before the standalone IM client was even an idea, there was one major solution: IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

I’m not even going to pretend. I was 5 or 6 years old back in 1995 so this is well before my time, too. In the age of social networking and Internet 2.0, web-based chat rooms are practically dead. They’re all but done with; on the endangered list. Still, IRC is the most popular server/client chat protocol in the world. Maybe the rooms aren’t as active as they were 10+ years ago, but we’ve still got a pulse!

Some boredom and curiosity mixed well together and I’ve rediscovered IRC just recently. Now, I’d like to show you how to use my favorite IRC client, HydraIRC. There are a lot of multi-IM clients (like Trillian) that support the IRC protocol, but nothing really beats the efficiency and oldschool feel of a standalone chat client. You’ve probably heard of mIRC, the most popular IRC client, but here’s a few reasons why I love Hydra:

• It is portable. Download the ZIP and extract it to wherever you like. Put it in your Dropbox or on a flash drive. Portable applications beat out self-installing packages every day of the week.
• It is lightweight. mIRC is a little bulky for me.
• It is free. Everyone loves things that are free.
• It supports everything that you need in an IRC client: multiple servers, DCC, event logs, channel monitoring, an extremely flexible GUI, and more.

You can check out some more, official screenshots at the official HydraIRC website.

Anyway, rusty IRC legend or complete newbie, let’s get you started. Get HydraIRC downloaded. Next step is to figure out where you want to chat and what about, right? You want to go into the File menu, then New Server. Hydra comes preloaded with loads of the most popular IRC servers.

Now it’s on you to pick the network (and associated server) that you want. You can either query up Google and learn a bit about each, or experience can guide you. FreeNode has tons of channels for coding, tech support, general hacking, networking, and things of that nature. EFNet is your oldschool “general” server. QuakeNet and GameSurge are for gamers, and so on.
For this example, let’s go ahead and go on GameSurge. Double click GameSurge, click the IRC server that expands beneath it, and then click OK to connect.

Every server consists of many channels (or rooms). Upon connecting, the Channel List window will pop up. If it doesn’t, you can click into the Channel menu and then Channel List. Click Populate List and after a second, you’ll have a list of every channel on the server. Click the Users header once and you’ll have sorted the channels by the most users. Scroll through, see if there are any you may be interested in, and then click Join.

This is how you join an IRC server and a channel (the easy way). There are hundreds and hundreds of servers out there and thousands of channels. There’s probably an active channel for just about any subject that comes to mind. It’s good to have it sitting in your taskbar for idle moments in between tasks.

If you need any help or want to dive deeper into the subject, let’s chat in the comments. If you really like IRC chatting, consider setting up your own IRC channel and read our post on that.

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Cloud streaming services like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/music-streaming-spotify-free/">Spotify and href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/rdio-offers-free-limited-streaming-music-news/">Rdio are becoming more and more popular, but there’s still a place for desktop applications and local music collections. If you still play music stored on your computer, you owe it to yourself to check out Foobar2000.

Quick Layout Setup

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After you install href="http://www.foobar2000.org/">Foobar2000 and start it up, you’ll see the Quick Appearance Setup window. Foobar2000 uses your system colors, a simple tabbed playlist pane and a traditional playlist layout by default. Here’s what it looks like:

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Now here’s what it looks like after selecting Visualization + Cover Art + Tabs, Blue, and Group by Albums in the Quick Appearance Setup window:

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We’re already getting an idea of how much we can customize Foobar2000. See how Foobar2000 now groups each album’s tracks in the playlist pane instead of repeating the same album name on every line? That’s the Group by Albums setting in action.

Feel free to play with the options here; you can reopen the Quick Appearance Setup window at any time by clicking the View menu, pointing to Layout and selecting Quick Setup.

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Media Library

Like other media players, Foobar2000 can watch folders for new music and automatically update its media library. Foobar2000 automatically watches your user account’s music folder by default. If you store your music elsewhere, click the Library menu, select configure and use the Add button to add more music folders.

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Foobar2000 comes with two media library viewers — click the Library menu and select Album List to browse the albums in your library or select Search to search for specific music files.

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Any of these viewers can be added to your Foobar2000 layout, so you don’t always have to open them from the Library menu.

Advanced Layout Customization

Foobar2000’s layouts aren’t limited to the layouts provided in the Quick Appearance Setup window. You can use its layout-editing mode to assemble your own layout; just click the View menu, point to Layout and select Enable Layout Editing Mode to get started.

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Right-click an interface element in layout-editing mode and you’ll see a menu. Select Replace to replace the interface element with another one or select Cut to delete the interface element entirely.

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Perform a cut on every interface element, including the vertical and horizontal splitters, if you want to start from scratch.

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Just click an empty area and you’ll be prompted to add a new interface element. Add a splitter if you want to divide areas into sections and add multiple interface elements.

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Here we’ve added playlist tabs at the top, a vertical splitter down the middle and a horizontal splitter on the left, which gives us two empty spaces on the left and one on the right. We’ve filled them in with an album list at the top left corner, an album art viewer at the bottom left corner and a playlist view on the right.

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Click the Enable Layout Editing Mode option in the Layout menu again after you’re done to disable the layout editing mode.

ReplayGain

Different music albums and songs have different perceived volumes. If your music player is playing music from different albums, you might have to adjust the volume up and down as louder and quieter songs come on. ReplayGain does this for you — Foobar2000 can automatically scan your songs, determine their volume and change the volume in the background so everything plays at one appropriate volume.

You can choose between two ReplayGain modes from the Playback pane in Foobar2000’s preferences window. Album mode considers entire albums when setting the volume, preserving volume differences between songs on the same album. Track mode just considers a single track, so every song that plays will be about the same volume. Foobar2000 uses album mode by default, ensuring that volume differences between songs on a single album are preserved.

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ReplayGain is enabled by default, but it depends on ReplayGain tags embedded in your music files. Many of your songs may not have these tags, but Foobar2000 can scan your files and add them. Assuming your music files are tagged correctly, the easiest way to add the tags is to select all your music in a playlist, right-click the selected files, point to ReplayGain and select “Scan Selection as Albums (by Tags).”

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Foobar2000’s excellent support for ReplayGain is one of the reasons audiophiles love it (another one is gapless playback; Foobar2000 automatically plays back music files with no pause in between them if the files support it).

Components

Components, available from href="http://www.foobar2000.org/components">Foobar2000′s components download page, are Foobar2000’s plug-ins. Components can extend Foobar2000 with support for new audio formats, add additional media library viewers or replace Foobar2000’s entire user interface.

Install components from the Components pane in Foobar2000’s preferences window after downloading them. Just click the Install button and browse for your downloaded components.

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Components are also available on other websites. For example, you can download a component that adds support for Windows 7′s new taskbar features href="http://wintense.com/plugins/foo_w7shell">here.

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Do you have any favorite components or other tips and tricks for Foobar2000? Let us know in the comments.

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Byline [ href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/byline/id284946773?mt=8">iTunes link - $1.99]

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Amazon [ href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-mobile/id297606951?mt=8">iTunes link]

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eBay [ href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ebay/id282614216?mt=8">iTunes link]

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Ticket To Ride Pocket [iTunes link]

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Amazon [ href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-mobile/id297606951?mt=8">iTunes link]

Perfect for when I’m out and about and see something I want – a quick price check using the barcode scanner tells me if it’s cheaper on Amazon, and I can save it to my basket right there with a single click. Great for the title="4 Ways To Save With Your Online Christmas Shopping" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-save-online-christmas-shopping/">money saving tactic I described before of leaving it in your basket for a month before you’re allowed to buy it.

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eBay [ href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ebay/id282614216?mt=8">iTunes link]

I do try to follow the “buy nothing new” movement, and for that eBay is a lifeline. The iPhone app gives me on-the-go mobile notifications for auctions I’m planning on sniping at the last minute, all with a nice mobile-optimised interface. It also makes selling a breeze.

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Ticket To Ride Pocket [iTunes link]

A perfectly executed title="The Top 5 iPad Designer Board Games You Can Gift This Christmas" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-ipad-designer-board-games-gift-christmas/">board game to iPhone conversion from Days of Wonder, with local multiplayer to other iDevices and vs AI modes. A great little diversion when my wife and I are travelling.

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Trillian [ href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trillian/id327603487?mt=8">iTunes link]

I recently switched my desktop messaging client from Adium to Trillian, a free IM client which integrates pretty much every kind of messaging platform you could hope for – including Facebook. The iPhone version is also the most reliable way I’ve found to get all sorts of IM messages on the go – previously I’d used BeeJiveGT and other iOS clients, but found there was a short delay in receiving messages.

I’m pleased with Trillian so far, and it means I never miss a message from either of my awesome bosses.

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Tumblr [ href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tumblr/id305343404?mt=8">iTunes link]

I maintain a Tumblr blog as a single-purpose photolog which I then import as a widget to my href="http://www.selfsufficiencyguide.org/blog">Self Sufficiency blog. The Tumblr app is fast, easy, and works with minimal fuss. Simple, effective – I love it.

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Those are my top 10, but how about you? Care to share a few absolute essentials that you use on a daily basis? Are you an obsessive app downloader but never actually use them? Let us know in the comments.

Don’t forget to check our full href="http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-iphone-apps">Best of iPhone Apps and href="http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-ipad-apps">Best of iPad Apps pages too for loads more hand picked app recommendations.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/0_boss.jpg" alt="how to twitter" />Today I’m going to teach you how to Twitter like a boss. What does it mean to be considered a power user on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter? Well, anyone who loves the social platform as much as I do could probably tell you that. Those who don’t, or may just be starting out however, probably couldn’t, as Twitter is still much of a mystery to so many. That mystery is exactly the reason why I’m going to take (almost) everything I know about the platform and teach it to you here. I feel like Twitter is still very much an underrated communication medium, and there’s href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AN4_N5N52U&feature=youtu.be">a lot it can be used for.

The top argument against the use of Twitter that I hear from those who haven’t joined the service is that they don’t see the point. “I have Facebook, why would I need a Twitter account too?“, they ask me. Well, as much as I love Facebook, Twitter is the place where I hang out most of the time, as it gives me the freedom to network with those I didn’t necessarily know previously, or went to high school with for that matter. Not to mention the celebrities and social influencers it allows me to get closer to. Join me, as this one’s coming from the heart.

Quit Yapping & Start Listening

The number one thing people worry about when they do inevitably sign up for Twitter is what they’re going to tweet. “How can I be interesting?” “What can I tweet that would make people want to follow me?” I would reply that it’s not about that.

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Twitter is best reserved as a “listening” platform. What I mean by that is that the chances are (really) good that if you’re passionate about something, whether it be sports, news, business, tech, or whatever, it’s probably already being discussed on the platform, so the best thing you can do is join in on that conversation.

The easiest way to find these conversations is – and always has been – href="https://twitter.com/#!/search-home">Twitter search. Simply type in a word, hit “Search” and work your way into conversations.

The Art Of @Replying

What does a conversation look like on Twitter? It’s as simple as @replying.

Web applications like href="http://twtrland.com/">Twtrland ( href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/twtrland-analyze-twitter-user/">directory listing) are very useful for viewing how a particular account’s tweets are broken up. Mine, for instance, says that just under half of my tweets are @replies – pretty conversational.

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What makes up the rest? Random bits of knowledge I tweet, music I’m listening to, things like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/check-mayor-favorite-venues-foursquare/">Foursquare and href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/discover-favorites-entertainment-getglue/">GetGlue check-ins, and tweets about the Steelers and Penn State football, mostly. If I worked at it, I’d love to see the percentage of @replies be even higher, because that means I’m building valuable relationships.

Follow & List Those That Inspire

Gaining followers is as simple as building working relationships through conversation and following those with similar interests as you. href="http://wefollow.com/">WeFollow is still a great site if you’re looking for people to follow under a specific category.

Twitter also has plenty of great href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-15-tweeting-stars-celebrities-follow/">celebrities you can follow and learn from. They’re less likely to follow you back, sure, but there’s a lot to gain as far as entertainment value is concerned. Some of them even use cool apps you can experiment with, like href="https://twitter.com/#!/shaq">Shaq, who uses href="http://www.tout.com/m/xt5lsx">Tout to post short video messages to his fans.

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As you follow people, I think it’s smart to href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-sort-people-follow-twitter-lists-formulists/">create lists based on certain criteria. I have lists for those that live in New York City, for instance, as well as those in my field. I even have a list for only websites, communities, and applications I follow. Keeping them separated helps keep your stream less clouded, especially if you use a web app like href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">Tweetdeck or href="https://seesmic.com/">Seesmic Web (my favorite) to view your lists in separate columns.

Adopt Hashtagging Habits & Be (Trending) Topical

Once you nail down all of that, it’s time for a little advanced tweeting. The first article I ever wrote for MakeUseOf back in what feels like 1985 was called href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-effectively-use-twitter-hashtags/">HOW TO: Effectively Use Twitter Hashtags. What’s a hashtag? #ThisIsAHashtag

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If you use Twitter at all you’ve certainly seen hashtags, but why would you ever want to use them? There are plenty of reasons, expressing sarcasm/irony and holding a group conversation among them.

Popular hashtags often make their way into Twitter’s Trending Topics list, along with other relevant keywords associated with top news stories or events people are buzzing about.

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href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23ButThatsJustMe">Clicking on one within the list will show you all of the tweets using that phrase, which can be very topical and even pretty fun at times. Start using these daily to gain your tweets some additional views.

Help People Find You

The last sure-fire thing you need to do in order to be a Twitter boss is to make it easier for people to find you. I have my Twitter handle everywhere. It’s on my business cards, in my email signature, and there’s a link to it on every site I have a profile on. It’s how I prefer to communicate with people, and the fact that Twitter is so mobile makes it very much like reaching me via text message/SMS.

Being that available to your network opens up the opportunity to make more connections and have more conversations with those in the space, and if you’ve followed the advice above, people will seek you out just to talk to you.

Conclusion

Everyone has a voice on Twitter. It’s the reason the platform has almost singlehandedly disrupted the news space and caused technology companies to integrate it into nearly every device that comes out nowadays. Becoming a power user takes time. It doesn’t matter how many followers you have, or how quickly you can get them. What matters is your voice, and if you can have an effect on someone with even a single tweet, well, that’s something worth being a part of.

If you’d like to get closer acquainted with any of us, you can href="https://twitter.com/#!/makeuseof/staff">find us on Twitter as well (we have a list!).

** Editor’s Note : After several years of working for us, this is Steve’s last article for MakeUseOf. Everyone at MUO wishes him all the very best for the future.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/goldeneye.jpg" alt="gaming music" />Maybe you’ve heard of nerdcore, but the realm of video game music spans beyond that. Video games often capture us with their soundtracks, and every now and then an awesome band, singer, or rapper comes along and twists those nostalgic tunes into a new track.

Being a gamer and a fan of music is brought together upon listening and a whole new form of enjoyment can be experienced. Ever felt like you’ve lived through replaying one of your favorite games just by listening to an album? With this post, let’s hope to achieve that. I’ve got some smooth hip-hop, a little bit of metal, mashup, and arrangements for you to enjoy!

href="http://megaranmusic.com/album/black-materia-final-fantasy-vii">Random (Mega Ran) & Lost Perception – Black Materia: Final Fantasy VII

/> No one is going to argue that Final Fantasy VII is one of the most influential and breathtaking games that the RPG genre has ever birthed. Squaresoft hit this one right on the head, and more than 10 years after it was dropped we’re still discussing the possibility for a proper sequel. Ran and his partner, href="http://lostperception.com/">Lost Perception, blend together some awesome beats with the FF7 OST.

Ran’s music isn’t your average rap. His lyrical content is meaningful, and the wordplay and lyricism of the Black Materia album theme perfectly. You can learn a whole lot about FF7 before even playing it by just listening in to the content of this beautiful album. If you’ve never played FF7 before and you give this album a listen, you’ll be thoroughly impressed with the way that a hip-hop artist can proudly and effectively blend amazing lyricism with video game culture.

If you have played FF7, you’ll be blown away. If you’re a fan of FF4, href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/final-fantasy-iv-free-remix-music-album/">check out this album.

href="http://artificialfear.bandcamp.com/album/loz-metal">Artificial Fear – LoZ: Metal

src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BSFGGGe8HgA" frameborder="0" width="570" height="320"> /> Fans of Zelda have been going absolutely nuts over this album for more than a year now. Artificial Fear does an outstanding job of playing back tunes from the Legend of Zelda series–mainly Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask – with a hardcore metal twist.

The album is crammed with 24 tracks for you to enjoy and bang your head to.

href="http://goldnfly.com/">Alex Kresovich – Gold N’ Fly 007

src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ll9Vp4R3bGA" frameborder="0" width="570" height="320"> /> When GoldenEye 007 hit the N64, FPS fanboys had a fit (and in a good way). Alex Kresovich takes the sounds from GoldenEye and mashes them together with some very lyrical rap songs. This album is the bomb.

Some of the featured artists include Tech N9ne (in the video above), 50 Cent, 2Pac, T.I., Rick Ross, Nas, and Jay-Z. If you’re a hip-hop fan, snag this!

href="http://music.jhsounds.com/album/hedgehog-hysteria">JH Sounds – Hedgehog Hysteria

src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uAXOf_YjnQo" frameborder="0" width="570" height="320"> /> If you had a SEGA Genesis, you had Sonic the Hedgehog. If not, I’d argue that something was wrong in your childhood. JH Sounds’ arrangements of the Sonic soundtracks are stunning and beautiful. What’s even more is that this album is 100% free.

Give this one a quick listen and I bet you’ll be taken back to the days of holding the right directional button on that bulky, black controller.

href="http://megarankmurdock.bandcamp.com/album/forever-famicom">Random (Mega Ran) & K-Murdock – Forever Famicon

src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/j7zVhnYMIws" frameborder="0" width="570" height="320"> /> We started with Random and we’re ending with Random. The nerdcore legend collaborates with beatsmith K-Murdock to make one of the most nostalgic and memorable gamer classics out there.

With his trademark storybook lyricism, Ran and Murdock give us goodies from games like Earthbound, Little Nemo, Kirby’s Dreamland, Metroid, and Street Fighter.

Got an album on your mind that I didn’t manage to list? Let us know about it in the comments and we’ll all share some tunes for the gamers to play to. If you’re obsessed with video game OSTs, we’ve previously shared href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-sites-download-free-video-game-music/">five awesome sites where you can find those.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

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First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

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href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

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Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

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If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

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href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

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Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

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No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

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My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

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The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

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The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

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First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

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href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

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Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/raywj_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kassemg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mark_zuckerberg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/darthvader_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/deathstarpr_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/firstworldpains_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oldspice_tweet3.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

View full post on MakeUseOf

class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jimmy_kimmel_tweet2.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/conan_obrien_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/craig_ferguson_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/raywj_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kassemg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mark_zuckerberg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/darthvader_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/deathstarpr_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/firstworldpains_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oldspice_tweet3.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

View full post on MakeUseOf

class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jimmy_kimmel_tweet2.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/conan_obrien_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/craig_ferguson_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/raywj_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kassemg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mark_zuckerberg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/darthvader_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/deathstarpr_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/firstworldpains_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oldspice_tweet3.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

View full post on MakeUseOf

class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jimmy_kimmel_tweet2.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/conan_obrien_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/craig_ferguson_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/raywj_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kassemg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mark_zuckerberg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/darthvader_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/deathstarpr_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/firstworldpains_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oldspice_tweet3.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

View full post on MakeUseOf

class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jimmy_kimmel_tweet2.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/conan_obrien_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/craig_ferguson_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/raywj_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kassemg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mark_zuckerberg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/darthvader_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/deathstarpr_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/firstworldpains_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oldspice_tweet3.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

View full post on MakeUseOf

class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jimmy_kimmel_tweet2.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/conan_obrien_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/craig_ferguson_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/raywj_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kassemg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mark_zuckerberg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/darthvader_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/deathstarpr_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/firstworldpains_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oldspice_tweet3.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

View full post on MakeUseOf

class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jimmy_kimmel_tweet2.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/conan_obrien_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/craig_ferguson_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/raywj_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kassemg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mark_zuckerberg_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/darthvader_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird twitter accounts" width="550" height="246" />

No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/deathstarpr_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/firstworldpains_tweet2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="246" />

The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oldspice_tweet3.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

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First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

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href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

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Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

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If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

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href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

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Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

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No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

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My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

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The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

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The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitterlogo.png" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" />We all know that with the millions of users that are on href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/twitter/">Twitter, there are bound to be some pretty interesting accounts to follow. In fact, there are way too many that should be mentioned as worthy of your time, but sadly that number has to be cut down dramatically for the purposes of this post.

Also note that the title of this post says that the following accounts are “hilarious and weird like Charlie Sheen on Twitter”. This is not entirely true, as I think href="https://twitter.com/charliesheen">Charlie Sheen is on a level of his own, and I’m sure he wants just that. If you’re reading this Charlie, you’re welcome.

3 TV Comedians

href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jimmy_kimmel_tweet2.jpg" alt="charlie sheen on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

First up is href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel">Jimmy Kimmel. He has always been pretty popular with his antics on late night television, and his Twitter account is a great extension of that. If you’re a fan of his show, you’ll love his Twitter account just as much.

My favorite recent tweet: “In 20 years there will be a nostalgic app that makes all your pictures look like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/">crappy old 12-megapixel photos.”

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien

style="text-align: center;"> class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/conan_obrien_tweet2.jpg" alt="weird people on twitter" width="550" height="246" />

href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien">Conan O’Brien would indeed be another account you can follow. He also brings many of his antics from his TV show to his Twitter account, with a Conan twist. I enjoy his show a lot whenever I have time to see it.

My favorite recent tweet: “Just learned the hard way that “Cajun-style” is not a quality you want in a proctology exam.”

href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson

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Finally, if neither one of those two suit you well, how about looking at href="https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg">Craig Ferguson‘s account? Personally, I’ve found his show to be my favorite, simply because of the randomness of what happens. His Twitter account brings a lot of tweets with it that make you laugh simply by the strange randomness from each tweet.

My favorite recent tweet: “My 10 yr old son just found out about the NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. I may have to get oxygen. The kid is losing it.”

2 YouTube Personalities

href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson

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If a personality who actually landed a job on national television isn’t the direction you want to go in, you can always try YouTube personalities. There are so many out there that it’s downright ridiculous. So I’ll cut it short and only name two, as YouTubers don’t all automatically have a Twitter account.

Our first person is href="https://www.twitter.com/raywj">Ray William Johnson, who currently has the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and regularly gets well over 5 million hits per video. He’s a great online comedian with a good team to back him up, and the random tidbits that land on Twitter are worth seeing as well.

My favorite recent tweet: “Are human souls considered low carb?”

href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG

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href="https://twitter.com/kassemg">KassemG is our second YouTuber who isn’t nearly as popular as Ray William Johnson but just as funny (in a slightly more inappropriate way, if that’s even possible). Either way, he’s worth checking out because the more laughs the better, am I right?

My recent favorite tweet: “I have a tumblr now but haven’t put anything on it. Is nudity allowed?”

3 Parody/Imaginary Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg

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Hey look, href="https://twitter.com/ceoMarkZuck">Mark Zuckerberg is on Twitter too! Well, not really. It’s a parody account, as Mark is clearly happy on Facebook and Google+ (yes, he’s on Google+, up to no good I assume). Anyway, this parody account cracks plenty of jokes about new Facebook features and other similar topics. Simply put, if you’re not a complete fan of Facebook, you’ll get a kick from this account.

My favorite recent tweet: “Smart lists for friends: they’re like Circles, but less round and not ruined by Google.”

href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">Darth Vader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR

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No Twitter experience is complete without some accounts that represent imaginary characters, especially Star Wars. Therefore, I definitely recommend you look at href="https://twitter.com/darthvader">DarthVader and href="https://twitter.com/DeathStarPR">DeathStarPR for your funny Star Wars jokes.

My favorite recent Darth Vader tweet: “The best part of waking up is ewok in your cup.”

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My favorite recent DeathStarPR tweet: “Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in Hollywood. See, this is why you guys don’t deserve to not get exploded.”

2 Miscellaneous Accounts

href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains

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The final two in our list are random accounts that I felt needed to be added to my list. First is href="https://twitter.com/FirstWorldPains">FirstWorldPains, an account where problems that people in the first world have are poked at with a funny stick, although each tweet does make you think a little. It’s a strange combination of funny and sad. I still enjoy to read their tweets.

My favorite tweet: “ href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-windows-internet-explorer-accessing-internet/">Internet Explorer.”

href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice

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The final account on our list is the great href="https://www.twitter.com/oldspice">Old Spice. Yes, their funny talents don’t just stop at strangely wonderful and funny commercials and YouTube videos, but continues even on their Twitter account! I have to admit, their commercials and social media activities are definitely working well for them.

My favorite recent tweet: “What’s the natural career progression after nuclear physicist, lady-kissing champion and mustachioed billionaire business tycoon?”

Overall, there are plenty of Twitter accounts that can be funny, weird or both. I find all the accounts that I listed to definitely be funny, while a good number of them (but not all) are “weird”. This list is not meant to be a definitive “these people are hilarious and weird, while nobody else is” list, so feel free to dispute the list and offer up your own suggestions in the comments.

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