Being entertaining on Twitter is an underrated skill. It’s already a talent to be able to capture a relatable cultural zeitgeist in a way that’s witty, but doing it with a character limit makes it all the more impressive. Over the past decade and a half, we’ve become so accustomed to iconic tweets being screenshotted and posted everywhere else that we often forget that. 

As repayment, perhaps we should show a little more appreciation for these pithy posts that we can’t stop reading, seventeen years after the platform was first launched. Even Elon Musk’s mismanagement can’t stop the runaway popularity of the internet’s premier text-based social media. 

There are still plenty of funny Twitter users, and we want them to be appreciated. So take a moment, and have leisurely scroll through this selection of semi-recent tweets. With any luck, there will be many more where that came from in the future.