I don’t know if you’ve heard of Twitter, a red-hot website for teens, but it’s VERY big right now (with teens). If you want to meet and charm other teens, you should really check it out – and here are a few MaxFun affiliates and pals you can follow.
Of course, I’m on Twitter @YoungAmerican. I make innapropriate jokes, then remember that the boss of PRI is subscribed to my feed, then figure, “hey, what’s done is done.” I also announce new episodes of TSOYA, livestreams of JJGo, and other stuff like that. Nick, the editor of TSOYA, is @NPWhite, where he occasionally asks a TSOYA-related question, and talks about the LPFM station he works at in Chicago. Jordan is on Twitter @Jordan_Morris, and he’s fantastically hilarious. Follow him and get one or two amazing jokes a day. I also tweet about Put This On @PutThisOn.
Kasper Hauser are @Kasper_Hauser, sharing awesome jokes. So are their members individually: Rob Baedeker (@robbaedeker), James Reichmuth, aka Jacobus of the 14th Century (@Jacobus14), John Reichmuth (@CountReichmuth), and Dan Klein (@Kleinimp).
Our Monsters of Podcasting friends met on Twitter, and they met because they’re all so hilarious there. Merlin is @HotDogsLadies, Scott is @ScottSimpson and Adam hits about two home runs a day @LonelySandwich. They tweet collectively as @YLNT.
Lots of our comedy friends are on Twitter. Rob Huebel (@RobHuebel) is probably my favorite Twitterer. His tweets seem to come from an alternate, nightmare universe which never ceases to amuse me. Other comedy pals of ours, like Rob Corddry (@RobCorddry), Chris Hardwick (@nerdist) and John Hodgman (@Hodgman) are there as well.
I also follow lots of public radio and podcasting pals. Our pal Matt from Never Not Funny tweets both for the show (@NeverNotFunny) and for himself (@MattBelknap). Tom Scharpling from The Best Show on WFMU is always stirring shit up @Scharpling. My overlords tweet @PRI. NPR’s Mike Pesca is @Pescami and Studio 360’s Kurt “Explodo” Andersen is @KBAndersen.
Of course, the most important person to follow is Andrew WK, whose PARTY TIPS (“PARTY TIP: You got to do it! You never give up! YOU’VE GOT TO DO ALL THE STUFF THAT YOU LOVE! Do what feels good, all the time.”) will make your life better every day. Follow him @AndrewWK.