slideshow It's no great secret that large corporations still have to figure out social media. A recent study found that most Fortune 100 companies don't get Twitter, and smaller companies have similar issues. Even when they're not buttoned-up and unresponsive, they're routinely outmatched by smaller, chattier Tweeters.

We put together seven surprising comparisons between deep-pocketed major companies and their offbeat Twitter competitors. Spoiler alert: a farting robot is in the same league as a $30 billion corporation. (And yes, this picture does have a point.)

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Journalists, if you are going to spout off about Twitter, I beg you: Do some research. This has occurred to me frequently since Twitter hit the big time earlier this year, mostly because there have been frequent glaring errors on the part of "mainstream" journalists who write precious little articles about the microblogging service. On yesterday's Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz hosted CNN's Rick Sanchez -- an enthusiastic Twitter user and evangelist -- and CBS sports columnist Gregg Doyel to discuss the question, "Too Much Twitter?" I wasn't sure what Doyel's qualification was here, but it soon became clear: He was one of those people who had loudly dissed Twitter in print, without actually bothering to actually understand it. (more...)