Weird Twitter
{{Short description|Genre of internet humor}}
Weird Twitter is a loose genre of Internet humour dedicated to publication of humorous material on the social network Twitter that is disorganised and hard to explain.{{cite web|last1=Herrman|first1=John|last2=Notopoulos|first2=Katie|title=Weird Twitter: The Oral History|url=http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/weird-twitter-the-oral-history#.nyaOebvNp|website=Buzzfeed|accessdate=24 March 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Raymer|first1=Miles|title=Weird Twitter Leaves Irony Behind on Instagram|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/weird-twitter-leaves-irony-behind-on-instagram/|website=Motherboard|publisher=Vice|access-date=8 May 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Dewey|first1=Caitlin|title=Who is @Darth and why is this person always in my Twitter feed?|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2013/12/05/who-is-darth-and-why-is-this-person-always-in-my-twitter-feed/|website=Washington Post|accessdate=8 May 2016}}
Related to anti-humour and created primarily by Twitter users who are not professional humourists, Weird Twitter-style jokes may be presented as disorganised thoughts, rather than in a conventional joke format or punctuated sentence structure.{{cite web|last1=Douglas|first1=Nick|title=“Weird Twitter” explained|url=http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/weird-twitter-explained-map/|website=Daily Dot|accessdate=24 March 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Knoblauch|first1=Max|title=The 21 Weirdest Twitter Accounts|url=http://mashable.com/2013/10/24/weird-twitter-accounts/#AyGLmU0grkqy|website=Mashable|accessdate=25 March 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Losse|first1=Kate|author-link=Katherine Losse|title=Weird Corporate Twitter|url=http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/weird-corporate-twitter/|website=The New Inquiry|accessdate=24 March 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Flynn|first1=John|title=The Normal Dudes Of ‘Weird Twitter’|url=http://activate.metroactive.com/2015/05/the-normal-dudes-of-weird-twitter/|website=Metro Silicon Valley|accessdate=24 March 2016}} The genre is based around the restriction of Twitter's 140-character message length, requiring jokes to be quite short.{{cite web|last1=Gallagher|first1=Brenden|title=A Survey of The Best and Weirdest of Weird Twitter|url=http://uk.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/07/a-survey-of-the-best-and-weirdest-of-weird-twitter/|website=Complex|accessdate=24 March 2016}} The genre may also include repurposing of overlooked material on the internet, such as parodying posts made by spambots or deliberately amateurish images created in Paint.{{cite web|last=Sun|first=Scott|title=An Odd, Uplifting 'Alien': Meet The Man Behind A 'Weird Twitter' Star|url=http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/12/19/459387407/an-odd-uplifting-alien-meet-the-man-behind-a-weird-twitter-star|website=All Tech Considered|publisher=NPR|accessdate=25 March 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Usher|first1=Tom|title=What It's Really Like to Be a Popular 'Weird Twitter' Personality|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/joke-twitter-celebrities-endhoos-jonnysun-dubstep4dads-keetpotato-ruinedpicnic/|website=Vice|access-date=25 March 2016}} The New York Times has described the genre as "inane" and intended "to subtly mock the site’s corporate and mainstream users."{{cite web|last1=Bromwich|first1=Jonah|title=Crowd-Funding Gets Wacky|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/style/crowd-funding-on-kickstarter-gets-wacky.html?_r=0|website=New York Times|accessdate=8 May 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Bridle|first1=James|title=Meet the 'alt lit' writers giving literature a boost|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/29/meet-alt-lit-writers-giving-literature-boost|website=The Guardian|accessdate=8 May 2016}} A notable writer on Weird Twitter is dril.