There’s an old adage that goes «A tweet in time saves nine.» That’s what I say to myself when I have an intrusive thought and have to tweet it immediately or else it will spill into my personal life in ways I don’t desire. That’s what Twitter is good for, for me, getting out my weird little jokes and thoughts so my friends don’t have to suffer through them in real life. It’s like having a therapist but for strange observations. Letting the air out of a thought balloon before it pops.

What did people do before Twitter? Write something on a piece of paper and paste it up in the town square? Scribble it in their journal and shout it at passers-by? That sounds like a heck of a lot of work. Luckily, that’s not the world we live in anymore. Enjoy these tweets in the old-fashioned way.