Actor Kevin Nealon of "Fat Actress" arrives for the sixth annual Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles in this April 11, 2005 file photograph. Standup comics usually try out their new material in front of a live audience and brace themselves for either raucous laughter or the sound of crickets chirping. But Nealon pre-tests some of his musings in 140 characters or less on Twitter, and determines from the instant feedback if they are side-splitting. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

Actor Kevin Nealon of "Fat Actress" arrives for the sixth annual Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles in this April 11, 2005 file photograph. Standup comics usually try out their new material in front of a live audience and brace themselves for either raucous laughter or the sound of crickets chirping. But Nealon pre-tests some of his musings in 140 characters or less on Twitter, and determines from the instant feedback if they are side-splitting.

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  1. Actor Kevin Nealon of "Fat Actress" arrives for the sixth annual Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles in this April 11, 2005 file photograph. Standup comics usually try out their new material in front of a live audience and brace themselves for either raucous laughter or the sound of crickets chirping. But Nealon pre-tests some of his musings in 140 characters or less on Twitter, and determines from the instant feedback if they are side-splitting.
  2. Actor Kevin Nealon of "Fat Actress" arrives for the sixth annual Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles in this April 11, 2005 file photograph. Standup comics usually try out their new material in front of a live audience and brace themselves for either raucous laughter or the sound of crickets chirping. But Nealon pre-tests some of his musings in 140 characters or less on Twitter, and determines from the instant feedback if they are side-splitting.
  3. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone gestures as he poses for photographers at the start of the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  4. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone jokingly 'Tweets' as he poses for photographers at the start of the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  5. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is interviewed during the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  6. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone poses for photographers at the start of the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  7. Delegates at the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  8. Delegates at the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.

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