In what is surely the finest use of social media since William Shatner performed the tweets of Sarah Palin on late night television, the 85 year-old cartoon archive of the New Yorker magazine has been revitalised, drawings recaptioned with the deep hip-hop philosophy of Twitter newcomer Kanye West.

Huffington Post, Paste Magazine and Mashable are among many who report on this major new art form known simply as #kanyenewyorkertweets.