Slate on favorite orphaned tweets — "picking lint from Judy's naval while she is napping!"

John Swansburg wrote a piece for Slate about "orphaned tweets" …

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… that is, the tweets left behind by the people who sign up for Twitter, post once, then decide Twittering isn't for them and never log back in. Some of them are quite funny ("eating a miniature pie"), some are quite bizarre ("picking lint from Judy's naval while she is napping!"), and some are a little scary ("it hurts to breathe. should I go to the hospital?").

Thought BoingBoing readers might get a kick out of the examples; also, we're inviting readers to submit their own favorite orphan tweets — I bet BoingBoingers have seen a good many such posts, and would love to hear about them.

Slate on favorite orphaned tweets