I am Joe's Twitter feed: 'Reader's Digest' to publish funny tweets

Twitter is officially middlebrow.

Folksy, long-running periodical Reader's Digest, the home of regular humor features such as "Life in These United States" and "Laughter is the Best Medicine," will now pay you for your funny tweets, according to The Huffington Post.

It's all happening because comedian Dan Wilbur saw that the magazine used one of his tweets in its September issue without his permission. Wilbur wrote an angry letter to Reader's Digest, and three days later, he got an apology in return. A few days after that, he got a check for $25 from the publication.

"Reader’s Digest will now pay Twitter writers for the jokes they use. So you'll have me to thank when they go bankrupt," Wilbur joked on his Tumblr page.

"Reader’s Digest has a long tradition of curating and paying for anecdotes and jokes," Reader's Digest public relations manager Paulette Cohen told The Huffington Post. "Dan Wilbur’s letter prompted us to begin classifying tweets in that same category, so we will now pay writers for tweets that we reprint in the magazine, as well as retweet them. We hope even more writers and comedians will send us their jokes in the future."

Did you read that, everyone on Witstream?

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