Monday, Mar. 28, 2011

The Onion

Followers: 2.7 million
Sample tweet: "Even Michael Vick A Little Uneasy About How Easily People Have Forgiven Him"

The best part of your typical Onion fake-news story is usually the headline. So why bother with the rest of the article? Tweets from the hugely popular feed @theonion link to the Onion's website, but their 140-character jokes are often perfect comic haikus. And with their continuous coverage of breaking events, sports and pop culture — not to mention their mocking of real news outlets — there is never a lack of material.