Tweets are important commodities in today's world. A viral tweet can lead to an exciting career advancement. A simple repost can let you know where you stand with a friend. The right DM could change your entire life. It's the town square of the online world, where pundits share information, fans consolidate resources, and humorists shoot from the hip to cut it all down to size. Think about how Twitter can influence politics, pop culture, Billboard rankings, opinions, cancellations, and lexicon-altering turns of phrase. That's a lot of cache for one little website.
Of course, it seems as though the Babylon of Golden Age Twitter has long since passed, and we're left to wrestle with the remains of a bygone era. But a falling empire is still an empire, at least for the time being. So let's look at some funny tweets and forget about the world for a while, shall we?