by Mike Tobias

Picture 20Word on the street is that Twitter is going to localize trending topics. This is going to revolutionize the way we look at morons. Before Twitter trends, you couldn’t find real-time moronic whims. Twitter broke the barrier and let us witness the true extent of human inanity. Oh, and it’s truly extenty.

And until now the world of trending topics seemed too large for my mind to grasp. Trending topics popping up from around the world, across our oceans, from Britain to Burbank. So vast when I only wanted to discover the most popular topics of my small community.

Now Twitter has answered my needs. (Tweeds?) And soon Twitter will launch a solid product that has their strongest feature: something useless that doesn’t make them money.

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