A tweet is like a small portal into someone else’s mind. For a brief moment, you can understand what they’re thinking, feeling, or observing. You get to know what it’s like to live inside their brains. It’s a beautiful thing. The best tweets convey big ideas in a concise manner, like the poets of yore. Call me crazy, but I feel like E. E. Cummings would have loved Twitter, where brevity reigns supreme. 

This list of tweets, fresh from some of the app’s greatest minds, serves as a reminder of why we turn to language. It connects us, provides us with shared experiences, and cultivates common shorthands for the vastness of human experience. We all know «that feeling when.» We’re all yearning «tbh.» I’ll spare you any more poetic waxing for the moment, but leave you with this list of the week’s best tweets. Consume with fervor.