The great American standup tournament that can be the Twitter trending topic.

The original snap was: #thingsfatpeoplehatedoing.

Here are some snaps back – one-liner’s, survey results – that caught my eye:

This is a completely random survey. I just stopped counting after ten.

If Twitter trending topics are a kind of new competitive standup, they’re also part of a tradition that dates back to previous game shows. I can almost hear the slick announcer at the start of the round saying: “Survey says: things fat people hate doing.”

It’s also worth noting that publishing the above list was not as easy as copying and paste. It took a knowledge of grep, HTML and access to a semi-private publishing platform like WordPress to do.

In other words, there are some barriers to tapping the wealth of Twitter. But surely they will come down via a hundred start-ups soon.