John Mayer is the Jack Handey of Twitter

It's official: John Mayer is the Jack Handey of Twitter.

The erstwhile blues-pop-body-of-Aniston-wonderland loving singing blogger is certainly one for occasional concision — but not one likely to be mistaken for a literary great. Nevertheless, Mister Mayer asked his more than 275,000 Twitter followers to seek inspiration from Ernest Hemingway and post six word stories to the social media site.

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But not to be outdone by his digital entourage, Mayer took his first Hallmark step forward with this gag-inducing, poetic plunge into micro-brilliance: "This heart didn't come with instructions."

No, John. No it didn't.

And no one needed nor requested the follow-up positive affirmation that Mayer published today: "Be yourself today. Be wildly yourself."

Mayer's newly-minted...er...'Deep Tweets' seem well-poised to rival the essentially contradictory 'Deep Thought' wisdom long-espoused by the likes of Handey. 

Could this be Mayer's play at digital posterity? Be still our twittering hearts that any more people bare sad witness to John's post-Aniston tweeted pain.

It's no coincidence that Mayer is chest-deep at work on an appropriately over-the-top new tune that he's aptly dubbed (ahem) -- "Heartbreak Warfare".