Day in, day out, as I've collected tweets from the media elite in our daily Twitterati, readers keep asking: Is this the best you can do? A fundamental misunderstanding: Twitter is best at its worst.

Which makes a best-of collection problematic. Twitter is beloved by wordsmiths because the 140-character limit requires a careful crafting of messages. But that same restriction has a flattening effect, making the smartest writers seem as stupid as your average oversharer. Twitter is the future of news, of media, of advertising, of personal communication, we're told. Oh, so we're headed for Idiocracy? Take this sampler not as some awarding of laurels, but a harbinger of impending doom.

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