David Pogue, author, New York Times columnist and CBS news reporter, is on a mission to get to know his followers. Yes… doesn’t that sounds creepy ?

Twitter is often thought-of as a unidirectional communication channel. Mostly by people who are not on Twitter. When Pogue was speaking in a seminar and wanted to demonstrate the imminence of the Twitter community, he asked for the best 140-character pun. The reactions started to flow in. He repeated with other questions and realised that he was actually displaying communication with the masses.

His Twitter followers turned out to be the wisest and funniest group of people, according to Pogue. And according to PEW and Quantcast this might be true since the demographic of Twitter is different from that of for instance Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.

The seminar display turned into a social media experiment. David Pogue thought up a list of 40 questions, statement or other prompts that he posed to his 500,000 followers and compiled the best reactions in his book The World According to Twitter, out in August of this year.

What can you expect ? Some of the funniest photo captions and parental advice that you cannot help but feel ring true. And if you think it’s all good fun, imagine what Pogue went through to contact his followers who’s comments he wanted to publish. The ones that had changed their username, the ones that had quit twitter and the ones that were on honeymoon…