Letterman Tries to Make Fun of Twitter on Top Ten List

First Letterman called Twitter a waste of time, and then he tried his hand at operating the microblogging site with his very own twitter machine. Last night, Letterman regaled audiences with a list he called, “Top Ten Signs You Spend Too Much Time on Twitter.”

As folks who actually do spend waaaaay too much time onTwitter (and Facebook, and Foursquare, and various and sundry video humor sites, and just basically hiding from the nourishing rays of the sun…), we’ve annotated his list below.

10. You miss your son’s soccer game waiting for Lady Gaga to post what she had for lunch.

There’s tons of mobile apps to rectify that issue, unless you’re still rocking a Samsung Juke (which I totally was until about a month ago).

9. You answer the phone: “Twello?”

Who… who would do that? Honestly, is this something people do?

8: You’ve spent millions developing iPhone waterproofing technology so you can Tweet in the shower.

Yeah, I think a bunch of people have beat you to that…

7. You haven’t touched your CB radio in months.

C…B…wha?

6. You ask yourself, “What would Jesus Tweet?”

Query: Answered.

5. You sleep tweet.

When Twitter is ‘a rockin’…

4. No number 4 — writer on Twitter.

Obviously, said writer has not heard of @Anywhere.

3. You stopped paying attention to this list after the first 140 characters.

No, man, you had “Lady Gaga” in there, and that was totally a top trending topic last week.

2. Even Ashton Kutcher thinks you tweet too much.

Like Kutcher actually follows any of us common folk via Twitter. (BTW, I’m @Brenna_E if you wanna rectify that situation, dude — please tell me more about daylight savings time while showering me with inspirational quotes.)

1. You walked in on the landscaper retweeting your wife.

Yeah. This one doesn’t really make sense, but nice go at saucy, sexual innuendo.

Check out the Letterman vid below and let us know in the comments: What are the real top 10 signs you spend too much time on Twitter?

What Social Media Users Want [STATS]

Twitterers mostly consume news, MySpace users want games and entertainment, Facebookers are into both news and community and Digg’s audience has a mixed bag of interests.

This is all according to online advertising network Chitika, who set out to analyze the interests of MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Digg users by comparing the genres of sites that receive traffic from these social networks. 287,090 impressions were used in the report, and based on this research, each social site has a distinct makeup of users with unique tastes.

The graphic below breaks it down. What’s most interesting is that nearly half the traffic (47%) that Twitter generates falls into the news category. In fact, Twitter users’ interest in the news genre surpasses that ofFacebook users by nearly 20%, which would appear to make it the number-one social network for newsies.

Another interesting tidbit is that MySpace users have no interest in news whatsoever. Instead that corner of the web splits its interests between video games (28%) and celebrity and entertainment content (23%). This aligns with what we’ve seen in terms of MySpace’s business strategy around securing exclusive entertainment content over the past few months and where it’s likely headed for the future.

If anything this data points to the varied interests behind our current obsession with popular social networks. It’s important information for marketers, advertisers and brands hoping to appropriately leverage each site.