Topic: What the Tweet?

What the Tweet?

'The Dark Knight Rises', Dutch Heirs, and Spelling Bee Stress

Warner Bros.

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

By Ray Gustini

Aug 30, 2011

What the Tweet?

Nerd Origins, Lost Cats, and Tasteless Retweets

Plus: The Washington Post is unafraid of serious teen issues

Comments | 572 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 29, 2011

What the Tweet?

Morgan Freeman, Vulnerable Trout, and Pineapple Retweets

Plus: The Jurassic period comes alive with the Avengersaurs

Comments | 536 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 25, 2011

What the Tweet?

Tim Burton, Hotel Marketing, and Larcenous Squirrels

Plus: English dogs don't know how they lived before discovering yoga

Comments | 377 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 24, 2011

What the Tweet?

Giant Cats, Growing Old, and Qaddafi's Hat

Plus: Oh, the places you won't shop!

Comments | 659 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 23, 2011

What the Tweet?

Earthquakes, NPR and Whisks

Plus: fact-checker of the planet of the apes

Comments | 1,927 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 22, 2011

By Ray Gustini

Aug 15, 2011

What the Tweet?

Creamy Ice Cream, Greasy Breakfasts, and Baby Donuts

It was a food-centric batch of confusing tweets to start the week

Comments | 211 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 8, 2011

What the Tweet?

Spies, Flying Machines and Ape-Smarts

Plus: Edgar Allan Poe's house needs a favor

Comments | 528 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 1, 2011

What the Tweet?

Swearing, UFOs, and Robotic Seals

Plus: what we're sending to Jupiter

Comments | 345 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 29, 2011

What the Tweet?

Agatha Christie, Border Straddlers, and One Lonely Kitten

Plus: forget everything they taught you in food critic training

Comments | 728 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 28, 2011

What the Tweet?

Gas Leaks, Glenn Beck, and Toning Shoes

Plus: Europe's arson problem, solved

Comments | 862 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 27, 2011

By Ray Gustini

Jul 26, 2011

What the Tweet?

Rick Perry, Taylor Momsen, and the Best Spot to Hide a Volcano

Plus: one more thing that shrinks your brain

Comments | 509 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 25, 2011

What the Tweet?

Wine Talk, Password Security, and Test Tweets

Plus: Slate's anti-dog agenda rages on

Comments | 773 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 22, 2011

What the Tweet?

Parliament, Big Labor and the End of the World

The confusing tweets that ended the week

Comments | 172 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 21, 2011

What the Tweet?

Sleep Tips, Parrot Ladies and Dwarf-Eating Carp

Plus: the Atlanta Journal Constitution Twitter feed will not stand down

Comments | 288 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 19, 2011

What the Tweet?

Brooklyn, Advertising, and Rupert Murdoch's Pieing

Plus: Slate calls out the world's oldest man

Comments | 345 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 15, 2011

What the Tweet?

Disneyland, Bear Apeageddon, and the East River Esplanade

All the tweets that gave us pause Friday

Comments | 835 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 13, 2011

What the Tweet?

Rich Folks, Saggy Pants, and the Vast Manatee Conspiracy

Plus: the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an admirer

Comments | 520 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 12, 2011

What the Tweet?

Angry Bees, South California, and Andre the Giant

On Twitter, it wasn't just the heat that was disorienting on Tuesday

Comments | 1,897 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 11, 2011

What the Tweet?

Kittens, Insane Spiders and Exploding Mosquitos

The tweets that tied us up in knots Monday had a heavy focus on the animal kingdom

Comments | 381 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 8, 2011

What the Tweet?

Flying Cars, Canadian Gangs, and Lying Labradoodles

It was a baffling Friday on Twitter

Comments | 432 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 7, 2011

What the Tweet?

Shoplifting, Subways and Phantom Bank Robbers

The tweets that tied us up in knots Thursday

Comments | 690 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 6, 2011

What the Tweet?

Lightbulbs, 'Jaws,' and Exploding Breast Implants

Plus: why don't you kids go get a job?

Comments | 1,136 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 5, 2011

What the Tweet?

Atom Colliders, Roswell Jokes, and Punching Friends

Plus: Slate wants to show you something very scary

Comments | 479 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 30, 2011

By Ray Gustini

Jun 29, 2011

What the Tweet?

Russian Aliens, Bagels and Pawlenty's Golf Buddy

Plus: the first rule of fireworks safety

Comments | 862 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 27, 2011

What the Tweet?

Painted Dogs, John Turturro, and Feisty Potatoes

Plus: what's Saturn hiding from us?

Comments | 153 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 22, 2011

What the Tweet?

Margarine, Bionic Dogs, and Abe Lincoln's Cyborg Tattoo

The tweets that tied us up in knots today

Comments | 1,207 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 21, 2011

What the Tweet?

Wedding Toasts, Divorces, and Martha Stewart

Plus: cigarette packages are about to get more gruesome

Comments | 580 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 20, 2011

What the Tweet?

Skinny Dipping, Fried Kool-Aid and Rafael Nadal

China's hot-dog eating dark horse and other tweets that made us say, huh?

Comments | 1,493 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 17, 2011

What the Tweet?

Centipede, Phil Campbell, and Mexican Hipsters

Plus: dispatches from the mail embargo

Comments | 2,759 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 15, 2011

What the Tweet?

Chimps, Newt Gingrich and Daguerrerotyped Boyfriends

All the tweets that tied us up in knots Wednesday

Comments | 1,410 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 14, 2011

What the Tweet?

Your Stomach, Killer Bees and Pippa Middleton

Plus: our favorite beret-related pun on Twitter today

Comments | 1,117 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 13, 2011

What the Tweet?

Dessert, Viperfish, and the American Dream

A confusing series of tweets to start off the week

Comments | 1,254 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 8, 2011

What the Tweet?

Glasgow, Cured Meats and Ice Cream Parlors

The tweets that tied us up Wednesday

Comments | 1,021 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 7, 2011

What the Tweet?

Frogmen, Ducklings and the Human Centipede

The tweets that gave us pause this Tuesday

Comments | 1,633 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 31, 2011

What the Tweet?

Cucumber Outrage, DNA, and the Fox News Ticker

All the tweets that tied us up this Tuesday

Comments | 1,234 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 25, 2011

Bob Dylan, Tim Pawlenty and the Army's Singing Brain

All the tweets that made us say "Huh?"

Comments | 490 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 17, 2011

What the Tweet?

Thoughts, Queen Elizabeth, and Women Who Walk

The tweets that made us go "Huh?"

Comments | 408 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 16, 2011

What the Tweet?

Perp Walks, Secret Helicopters, and Anderson Cooper's Hair

The tweets that got our week off with a "Huh?"

Comments | 625 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 13, 2011

What the Tweet?

AIG, Illegal Acts, and the Death of Snooky

All the tweets that gave us pause Friday

Comments | 2,050 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 12, 2011

What the Tweet?

Sequins, Kristen Wiig, and 'Headless Fatties'

The tweets that tied us up in knots today

Comments | 345 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 11, 2011

By Ray Gustini

May 10, 2011

What the Tweet?

BBC and TMZ: Separated at Tweet

A special edition of What the Tweet looking at our two of favorite sources of "huh?"

Comments | 745 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 9, 2011

What the Tweet?

Tornados, Perverts, and Time Travel

The tweets that made us go "Huh?" today

Comments | 714 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 6, 2011

What the Tweet?

Striking Drones, Ponzi Schemers and Jack Bauer

Plus more tweets that made us go 'Huh?'

Comments | 689 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 4, 2011

What the Tweet?

Popular Girls, Creature Features, and Invisibility Cloaks

The tweets that gave us pause this Wednesday

Comments | 714 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 28, 2011

What the Tweet?

Interns, Asia, and the Meaning of Clouds

Plus: The Washington Post issues a cryptic warning

Comments | 245 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 27, 2011

What the Tweet?

Fire Ants, Carnival Barkers, and Shakespeare

Plus: grease rustlers are on the prowl

Comments | 626 Views

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