Think kids these days are spoiled brats? Well, if you checked the public feed on Twitter this holiday season, you wouldn’t think it – you’d know it.

If you would like to spend a few minutes weeping for the future of humanity, check out John Hendren, a.k.a @fart‘s Twitter stream. He spent part of Christmas Day retweeting some of these spoiled kids’ Twitter gems for your reading pleasure.

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You’ve likely seen it reported countless times by now: Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, screwed up the privacy settings on a family photo and it ended up on Twitter. And she got all shades of angry about it.

People are saying it isn’t news (though it so obviously is) or they’re having fun focusing on the hilarious irony of the slip-up and her reaction to it – but what about the poor woman who unintentionally shared this “private moment?”

Is Randi Zuckerberg a Twitter bully?

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If you live somewhere where it snows, you may find this interesting: The next time snow is forecasted for your area, you can get a personalized snowfall prediction just by sending a tweet.

You have to do something in return for this personalized info though – nothing worthwhile is free.

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2012 was a huge year for social media innovation, not least for advances made on Twitter.

The past year saw the introduction of Twitter photo filters, brand new Twitter profiles including the platform’s first-ever cover photos, significant Twitter mobile app updates and more.

One cool Twitter tweak to look forward to in 2013?

Increasingly, Twitter users will have the ability to order or deliver food or drink via tweet.

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Now you can have your Twitter, and wear it too.

One of the coolest technology trends of 2012 was Twitter fashion: dresses, shoes and more that infused Twitter tech into wearable merchandise.

Here are a few of our favorites.

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This is a reshare of a post that appeared in August of 2010, modified slightly.

It’s probably fair to say that most people – certainly most business professionals – bring their mobile phones and (probably) laptops with them when on vacation or off on a holiday.

The thought of being completely isolated from the internet is less of a holiday, and more of a prison sentence. And while beaches are breathtaking and vacation towns are picturesque, the lack of a reliable 3G connection – or anything resembling free wifi – can drive a person nuts!

What about you? Are holidays (note: not business trips) literally about getting away from it all, or are some things like Twitter still super-important? Hit the comments to let us know!

If Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, & Future, he will likely be shown 3 scenarios that highlight the way he wastes every Christmas – Tweeting his brains out.

So don’t feel so bad if you spend your holidays with the ol’ 140 Characters, on Twitter. You’re not the only one…

If you are lonely; or, if your family is intolerable; or if you are a Twitter junkie, we have created a list of 6 ways to make your holiday experience on Twitter more fantastic:
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Whichever way you want to look at it, 2012 was a very big year.

The London Olympics, U.S. president election, Hurricane Sandy, Euro 2012 and the Super Bowl dominated news reportage worldwide. Of course, these events also trended globally on Twitter, which has quickly positioned itself as the online water cooler.

So what else were we talking about in 2012?

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Did you know that since Twitter first opened its doors back in 2006, more than 163 billion tweets have been sent on the micro-blogging social network?

What if we told you that 25 percent of Facebook users don’t bother with any kind of privacy settings? Or that Google+’s +1 button is used 5 million times per day? Would you be interested to learn that posts on Pinterest that include pricing information receive, on average, 36 percent more pins than those that don’t?

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Need a little weekend reading? We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes six marketing tips for brands looking to exploit the power of visual social media, a look at what everyone was talking about online in 2012, a review of social business over the past year, why customer service is going social and news that Nielsen has created a new metric based entirely on tweet data.

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