If laughter is the best medicine, Twitter certainly kept us in tip-top shape this year with its crop of spoof accounts.
We've rounded up 10 of the best spoof accounts for you to follow to ensure your healthy merriment doesn't cease in 2012. Below, check out the embedded tweets from each of our top 10 as well as a few bonus galleries of additional accounts to put on your radar.
1. @NotZuckerberg
This account parodies Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Here, he likens a rival service to exercise equipment.
A Google+ account is like a piece of home exercise equipment: you have one, you never use it, and you know nobody else uses theirs, either.— Not Mark Zuckerberg (@notzuckerberg) December 29, 2011
These other spoof handles from the worlds of tech, social media and the web also will put a smile on your face.
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2. @OldHossRadbourn
Baseball pitcher Charles Gardner Radbourn died in 1897, but his spirit sort of lives on ... on Twitter.
"I just ousted pagan religion and scary Old Testament Yahweh as the mayor of the Earth on @foursquare!" #ChristmasTweets1AD— Old Hoss Radbourn (@OldHossRadbourn) December 23, 2011
3. @FakePewResearch
The Pew Research Center fills our brains with stats. This spoof takes a slightly different approach.
Percentage of people who misread the "Toys for Tots" sign and donated tassels: 2%— Fake PewResearch (@FakePewResearch) December 20, 2011
4. @BettyFckinWhite
Actor Betty White is still chugging along at 89. @BettyFckinWhite amplifies her awesomeness.
#2011regrets That my sex tape is on 8mm and no one can see it now.— Betty F*ckin' White (@BettyFckinWhite) December 13, 2011
Celebrities are easy targets to parody. Here are a few that have gotten the spoof treatment.
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5. @God_Damn_Batman
Itching to see The Dark Knight Rises in 2012? Get your fill of Batman with this aggressive account.
Returning this Kindle Fire. Turns out it doesn’t double as a flamethrower. Lame.— The Batman (@God_Damn_Batman) December 26, 2011
6. @Lord_Voldemort7
He who shall not be named pokes fun at current events, social media and, of course, Harry Potter.
#BiebersNannyWouldSay "And I was like 'baby, baby SHUT THE HELL UP'"— The Dark Lord (@Lord_Voldemort7) December 29, 2011
7. @Edgar_Allan_Poe
Literary great Edgar Allan Poe comes to life again in poetically written, jaw-dropping tweets.
Few pleasures are as glorious as spending a day in Farmville raping and pillaging homesteads.— Edgar Allan Poe (@Edgar_Allan_Poe) November 15, 2011
Poe is not alone. Spoofs of other famous authors also pen entertaining Twitter missives.
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8. @NYTOnIt
The bio says it all: "Because sometimes stories in newspapers are just *that* obvious."
GUYS, you’re not going to believe it: White men who work on Wall St. get paid a lot. The Times is ON IT. nyti.ms/svJ7q6— The Times Is On It (@NYTOnIt) December 3, 2011
9. @Jesus_M_Christ
This version of Jesus Christ weaves together biblical references and current events.
Hey Verizon, who's wiener herpes do I need to cure to get a phone tower up here? #nobars— Jesus Christ (@Jesus_M_Christ) December 30, 2011
10. @BronxZoosCobra
The king of Twitter's animal kingdom this year was @BronxZoosCobra, which was created and became famous in March after its real-life counterpart escaped from the Bronx Zoo.
I'm really loving the name of the new iPhone. It really rolls off the tongue. iPhone 4ssssss.— Bronx Zoo's Cobra (@BronxZoosCobra) October 4, 2011
The web really, really likes animals, sometimes even more so than media outlets.
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