Leave it to the clever dudes and lady-dudes at Funny or Die to reduce and its origins to superficial references of terrible movies. But their Ken-Burns-style Civil War sendup certainly caught our attention.

My favourite part comes from one of the “experts,” Dr. T. Wheaton, Professor of Tweetology is told to stop as he has got to 140 characters. So, there's never been any other way to find any information? What did we ever do without Twitter?

Now, somebody just needs to tell these people at Funny or Die that it's Twitter's fifth anniversary, not its 150th.

via Mashable