Twitter is a machine for feeding and profiting from our worst impulses and knee-jerkiest reactions. It encourages us to be the worst, angriest version of ourselves. It protects Nazis. And, in case you thought it would be any better in 2018, the U.S. president has already used it as a megaphone to holler about the size of his nuclear button. Twitter is bad. So bad. But even a flaming salvage barrel can be pretty when you look at it from the right angle.
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In the spirit of finding beauty and humor in the social network equivalent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Daily Dot will share the best tweet from each day of 2018. These are tiny moments of reprieve that make the life of a journalist (i.e. a professional Twitter reader) bearable. We hope they bring you some comfort, some faith in humanity, or just a shared chuckle.
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Just remember that, as bad as 2017 was, it brought us the teeth tweet. What will this year bring?
The best tweets of 2018: January
Jan. 1
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Jan. 2
Jan. 3
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Jan. 4
Jan 5.
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Jan. 7
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Jan. 8 (“Devil Went Down to Georgia” guy 👇 )
Jan. 9
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Jan. 10
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Jan. 11
Jan 12.
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Jan 13.
Jan. 14
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Jan. 15
Jan. 16
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Jan. 17
Jan. 18
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Jan. 19
Jan. 20
![[teaching my boyfriend cards] ME: the blue ones represent logic, the yellow are morality & order, the green use instinct & interdependence, and the red value chaos & impulse HIM: *frantically flipping through UNO instruction booklet*](https://uploads.dailydot.com/37e/6a/46024a9eaece2e1c.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
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Jan. 21
Jan. 22
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Jan. 23
Jan. 24
![[extremely Degrasse Tyson voice] water can not have a shape, unless it is ice, the movie should be called 'Ice Movie'](https://uploads.dailydot.com/692/7c/ed0337b5ef73c06b.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
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Jan. 25
Jan. 26
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Jan. 27
Jan. 28
![growing up in mass i lived near a town named sandwich and only now, years later, do i realize how funny that is [photo is a 'sandwich police' car in front of a Subway]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/d9b/92/13ab84f951ff8863.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
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Jan. 29
Jan. 30
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Jan. 31
Feb. 1
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Feb. 2
Feb. 3
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Feb. 4
Feb. 5
![[me telling a lie] my mouth: yeah and that's the way it happened my arms: yep my legs: 100% my hips: sorry y'all I can't do this](https://uploads.dailydot.com/b81/35/979f6e7842568dea.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
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Feb. 6
Feb. 7
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Feb. 8
![i'm late to work because of this [image says 'the cook, the thief, his wife, her lover, & knuckles']](https://uploads.dailydot.com/161/94/20c772ca2918c982.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Feb. 9
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Feb. 11
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Feb. 12
Feb. 13
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Feb. 14
![[valentine's day] gf: [reading my txt] 'keith just said he's going to give me 92 minutes of pleasure tonight' her friend: 'oh wow' [later watching shrek 2] me: 'you look disappointed'](https://uploads.dailydot.com/5fb/06/097eaf2cb0b22425.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Feb. 15
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Feb. 16
Feb. 17
Feb. 18
Feb. 19
![it's the remix to eviction [news story: r. kelly evicted from atlanta homes]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/15f/72/0650fc94881177ad.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Feb. 20
Feb. 21 (the whole thread is good)
Feb. 22
Feb. 23
Feb. 24
Feb. 25
Feb. 26
![[watching Ready Player One with date] 'That's player one, and if I'm not mistaken...yes. He is ready'](https://uploads.dailydot.com/ff7/17/58a1f85f85b693a2.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Feb. 27
![ah yes the two genders [photo of people wearing white adidas / photo of people wearing black Vans]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/5d5/f4/f97d9bbec352a5b3.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Feb. 28
Mar. 1
Mar. 2
![respect to @olivegarden for no longer selling AR-15s at all their locations [next tweet is a cease and desist letter from olive garden]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/5b7/8e/6e45d14bb6b11873.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Mar. 3
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Mar. 5
Mar. 6
![Post Malone always looks like a vandalized Wendy's logo [photo of Post Malone]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/be5/b2/27c2c61bc1c70a3a.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Mar. 7
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Mar. 16
![Got a text from my little brother saying, “Grandma is wearing your old shirt...” [it's an anime shirt]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/ad3/95/46e62ffea1f7fb42.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Mar. 17
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Mar. 21
![2008 me: Jesus christ... so it's... The future is a straight-up dystopia? 2018 me: yeah but check this out I've put one of your memes next to ours and I have to say the memes have gotten a lot better [Photo: a chuck norris meme on the left, and a google search for 'who invent boneless car' with the result being 'ol musky' on the right]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/24f/a7/80c529408e5094bf.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Mar. 22
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Mar. 28
Mar. 29
![I want a girl with a short skurgage and a [sign says 'long burgage']](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/longburgage.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Mar. 30
Mar. 31
![Journalism vs every other career [sign points to 'reading and writing' one way and 'money' the other]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/journalismlol.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 1
![psychologist: okay how about this [holds up another rorschach blot] what do you see in this me: Big Mood psychologist: [exasperatedly takes off glasses and rubs bridge of nose]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/bigmoodtest.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 2
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Apr. 5
Apr. 6
![These expensive, these is red bottoms. These is [picture of 'mini moos' cream packet]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/minimoos.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 7
![it's the remix to ignition [picture of hot n' spicy mcchicken]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/remixtomcchicken.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 8
Apr. 9
Apr. 10
Apr. 11
![[political compass with bye men / by men / bi men / buy men]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/buymen.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 12
Apr. 13
![[Photo of weird-looking fish] The horngus of a dongfish is attached by a scungle to a kind of dillsack (the nutte sac).](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/donglehorngus.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 14 (click through to read the whole thing)
Apr. 15
![[photos of three eyes] 1. weed 2. cocaine 3. seeing right through your cards, yugi boy](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/yugiboy.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 16
Apr. 17
Apr. 18
Apr. 19
![this shit look like a scooby doo fruit snack [picture of Kanye's 'Yeezy Slide' sandals]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/scoobydoo.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 20
![call me by your name [lyrics to john jacob jingleheimer schmidt]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/yourname.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Apr. 21
Apr. 22
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Apr. 24
Apr. 25
jigen: i’m trying to sleep
lupin: *shaking him* how will we steal value after it becomes irrevocably tied with the act of doing labor itself!
Apr. 26
Apr. 27
Apr. 28
Apr. 29
Apr. 30
May 1
![the infinity stones were hiding in plain sight [friends logo]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/friendstones.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 7
![[don draper, shirtless and in sunglasses, cracking open a can of coors and taking a liberal sip while standing on the prow of a yacht while watching fireworks burst over manhattan bay at twilight on the fourth of july… slowly morphing into jar jar binks in the course of a gif]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/01/dondraper.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
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May 16
