One of the reasons I find Conan's Twitter Tracker funny, is because the tweets he features are so lame. Now, people will follow celebrities no matter how lame their tweets are because, well, they're celebrities. For the rest of us here are 3 ways to keep your tweets filled with extra bird bacon:

1. BE RELEVANT - offer a helpful tip, a compelling link, or other valuable resource.
Examples:

• @nancyduarte Tim Burton is a visual genius. Pan around "Alice in Wonderland" http://bit.ly/9mW4e
• @kjoneskc 5 Job Blogs You Should Be Reading http://bit.ly/3tjVm
• @mashable TIP: If you're new to Twitter, our Twitter How-tos & Resources section might be useful: http://bit.ly/163Pmp

2. ENGAGE OTHERS - ask questions, answer questions, respond, or retweet.
Examples:

• @davefleet @trchandler Yikes - a bit of free software convinced you to commit to an iPhone? That's powerful. Is it worth that much to you?
  
• @ditty1013 @trchandler Thanks for the comment & link! I don't think I've heard from a single person who didn't cry at Up, so we're in good company. :-)
• @MelissaTweets RT @trchandler: Does anyone know a good bike carrier for a Mini Cooper?

3. USE HUMOR - doesn't have to make others laugh out loud, just smile.
Examples:

• @badbanana 100 degrees today. 99 if you factor in windchill.
• @phillygirl In my next life I'd like to come back as someone who goes to Kmart less frequently.
• @SeoulBrother This is the kind of heat that kills off brain cells. Explains a lot about the South.

Not Cool: Tweeting old one-liners.

In his book Twitter Power, Joel Comm divides tweets into two types: broadcasts and conversations. The celebrities I've seen seem to focus on more broadcasts, and far too many businesses on Twitter fall in the same trap. They could both be more interesting with a little less broadcast and a little more conversation.

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I was curious about how my children viewed Up in relation to the other Pixar films, so in traditional Chandler fashion, I overdid it by creating an Excel spreadsheet with all 10 films listed as rows, and each of the kids names as column headers.

Then one-by-one, I had each child rank order the movies (1 being their favorite, 10 being their least favorite). I averaged the scores for each movie and here is the collective Chandler children rank order of the 10 Pixar major motion pictures, with the correct answer (my ranking) in parenthesis and a quick tweetable quote from each to add a little color to the list.

1. Ratatoulle (2) Welcome to Hell.
2. Cars (4) I create feelings in others that they themselves don't understand.
3. Wall-E (6) Computer, define "dancing."
4. Up (5) You got a "run away in terror" badge?
5. Toy Story (7) "Extremely dangerous. Keep out of reach of children." Cool!
6. The Incredibles (1) Hi, this is Kari, sorry for freakin' out but your baby has "special needs."
7. Monsters, Inc. (9) Kids these days. They just don't get scared like they used to.
8. Finding Nemo (8) You think you can do these things, but you just can't, Nemo.
9. A Bug's Life (3) Here, pretend - pretend that that's a seed.
10. Toy Story 2 (10) Excuse me, ma'am, but I believe you're on the wrong flight.

You think you're the slickest operator in Duluth, and maybe you are, but being the slickest operator in Duluth is kinda like being the world's tallest midget, if you ask me.

I brought that idea back to the office, and for the last couple of weeks at the end of the day we each share what we learned. This week, someone on the team googled "What did you learn today" and discovered Rick Segel's blog post with that exact title. It's an excellent story about how his parents asked him and his sister that question every day. So good, in fact, that you should stop reading this and go read it right now.

Go on, I'll wait.

Wasn't that worth the extra two clicks?

For a brief moment in time, my grandfather answered the question "How you doing" by simply responding "better." See, he believed that everyday he learned a little more and was constantly getting better. Unfortunately, most people misunderstood his comment and thought he was recently ill and was just now getting better. After spending too much time having to explain his clever response, he eventually gave up on this subtle, daily sharing of his philosophy.

Like the way Segel's parents influenced his life, my grandfather instilled in me his "better" philosophy, and with this basic, little question I've discovered a great tool to get a little better every day. End it with, "What did I learn today?"

• "The most dedicated and nicest drive through clerk I have ever met," says a customer describing a loyal Jack in Box Associate.
• Green Day just got their picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone for 15 years of brand alignment.
  
• The new Star Trek movie is a nicely aligned refresh of the Star Trek brand.
  

• Air Force One flyover in New York City - in fact it was so out of alignment, it resulted in the resignation of White House Military Office Director Louis Caldera.
  
• Carrie Prejean represents the brand of Miss California. As John Tantillo argues in his article, whether you agree with her or not, her strong political stance is not in alignment with the Miss California brand that stands for diplomacy and leadership.
• Jamie Lee Curtis (the winner of TWO Golden Globes) has become The Activia Lady.
• And according to The Onion, the new Star Trek movie which is fun and watchable and totally out of alignment with the Star Trek brand of dated and cornball.
  

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Hollyn explains:

Let's look at the third verse of the song, where there is a strong Lean Forward Moment, as the band sings, "All your insults and your curses, make me feel like I'm not a person." If this song's story is about how teenagers cannot get their true feelings across to their parents, then this lyric in the song is the most direct statement of it. The lyrics speak to their alienation and the music pounds those thoughts home at this point. (p. 308)