Anyone who uses Twitter on a regular basis will have seen the #followfriday hashtag, in which people recommend other people worth following. In the spirit of things, here are Day and Night’s current favourite tweeting musicians and artists.
Who: Marina & the Diamonds (@marinasdiamonds)
Why?: As well as being a talented and gorgeous individual, burgeoning pop star Marina is also a genuinely nice person. It’s interesting to watch such a person become a pop star, which trust us, despite her tweet below, she will be by summer 2010.
Sample Tweet: “Can’t wait to be deemed the failure of 2010 ya’ll! Off to Hollywood to become an uber hot socialite now! Byyyyye!”
Who: Adebisi Shank (@adebisishank)
Why?: Humorous tweets from the Dublin frenetic rock trio taking in occasional reports from tours in Japan.
Sample Tweet: “Anyone get the Mr Tayto book? Was he really molested by the Monster Munch Cyclops?”
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Joe Biden, photobomber.
The vice president has been omnipresent throughout Obama’s life. He’s like Richard from Lost. Creepy.
http://short.ie/bidenphotos
The Social Network – the movie
Justin Timberlake has been cast in the upcoming David Fincher movie which is largely about Facebook. Confusingly, he’ll play the co-founder of Napster Sean Parker.
http://short.ie/socialmov
Twitter Music Database
A comprehensive spreadsheet of artists, musicians, labels, bloggers and Djs on Twitter.
http://short.ie/twitmusic
Insanewiches
More food fun ensues when people get creative with their lunch.
http://www.insanewiches.com
Tweeji
If you’re the kind of person who is fascinated by famous dead people, you can get your fix of their Twitter profiles here.
http://tweeji.com
Why the Fuck Do You Have Kid?
Examples of bad parenting including selling your baby’s first name on eBay, letting a eight-year old drive and an Indian ritual of dropping babies from a great height onto a rug.
http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com
Sexy Execs
“Meet the silver-foxes and their lovely lady friends who rule our corporate world.“
http://sexyexecs.blogspot.com
The Auteurs
Watch arthouse films for a fiver streaming online. Extremely worth it as a lot of these films are hard to find. Plus, the site shows a free film every month.
http://www.theauteurs.com
RTweeter
Belfast developer Stuart Manning has built some extensions for Twitter which allow you to write more than 140 characters, enter a map location on your tweets and check stats on your links.
http://rtweeter.com
The world’s oldest microblogger?
An 104 year old British woman called Ivy Bean shares her life on Twitter with her 15,000 followers.
http://twitter.com/ivybean104
Lego Movie Posters
21 movie posters including the films X:Men Origins – Wolverine, Rocky Balboa and Jaws recreated in Lego.
http://tinyurl.com/legoposters
Eco-Friendly Business Cards
Why waste paper on business cards when you can get a cooler, more ecologically sound and impressionable rubber stamped version?
http://tinyurl.com/ecocards
The 20 Most iconic Internet videos
It’s like looking back at your old photos except you just realise how much time you’ve wasted on the internet..
http://tinyurl.com/dblcc8
Oprah joined Twitter
The queen of chat racked up 365,000 followers in a couple of days but had to be politely reminded by Shaq that her caps lock were on.
http://tinyurl.com/d7jqtv
Super Mario online
Nintendo kids rejoice! Play every Super Mario game ever in your browser..
http://tinyurl.com/playmario
Koool Kojak and Andy Milonakis show us how this Twitter thing is done..
10 Extraordinary Twitter Updates
Mashable highlight ten life-changing tweets including a marriage proposal and breaking news stories.
http://tinyurl.com/tweetten
Cassette Art
Not sure what to do with those cassette tapes you thought were the future? Turn them into art of course!
http://tinyurl.com/cassetteart
Musicians take note!
This is how you simultaneously impress media when sending in CDs and demos. Unless they confuse the technique for a kidnapping, then you’re in trouble.
http://tinyurl.com/weirddemo
