I think that concludes my marathon of retweeting Twitter’s best jokes… although I promise nothing.
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Replying to @mwichary
They feel like a specific new format of joke emerging: surreal micro scripts, native to Twitter, pull-the-rug punchlines
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Replying to @thoughtwax
It’s definitely a genre, with more emphasis on dialogue (economy of space), although punchlines don’t feel that different…
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Replying to @mwichary @thoughtwax
…to me. Most of humour/laughter comes from processing the unexpected.
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Replying to @mwichary
Right. Emergent formatting norms too: square brackets, —
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Replying to @thoughtwax
Quotes + no quotes for dialogue. (Again, economy!)
3:24 PM - 3 Jul 2016
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