We respect and value the social media editors who share the links that make our job easier. But sometimes, we have no idea what they are talking about. So after a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorites.

Do not eat magnets: wapo.st/x0Ixor

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 27, 2012

Nope, not even if you rinse it off and rub it on your shirt beforehand. NO DICE.

Which was more brutal, Gitmo or The Inquisition? slate.me/yPhAL9b

— Slate (@Slate) January 27, 2012

You have brutality questions, Slate has brutality answers. So let's get cracking.

Mom, just let me have sex in my bedroom huff.to/w0UkL3

— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) January 27, 2012

Whoa! Well, we would have put quotation marks around that one, or maybe slipped in an "@" so it wasn't just hanging there. But everyone's entitled to tweet the way they wish.

Improved taste leads to surge in sales of low-alcohol beers gu.com/p/353h7/tf

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) January 27, 2012

That investment in rebuilding our crumbling taste bud infrastructure is finally starting to pay off. But the bar trade is off.

Volcanoes! From! Spaaace! bit.ly/xYSPh0

— Wired (@wired) January 27, 2012

Simple Twitter truth: adding a ghoulish "Spaaace" to the end of your tweets makes them irresistible 

VIDEO: What IS this? Find out in Odd Box... bbc.in/wZYqSy

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 27, 2012

What's in the odd box? WHAT'S IN THE ODD BOX?

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Ray Gustini