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The World According To Twitter
David Pogue
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
September 2009
On Sale: September 1, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 1579128270
EAN: 9781579128272
Kindle: B002QXO6PY
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Humor
The wit and wisdom of the Twittersphere captured in a
hilarious, occasionally poignant, and often useful
collection of hand-picked tweets. New York Times technology columnist David Pogue has
tapped into the brilliance of his half-million followers on
Twitter by posting a different, thought-provoking question
every night. The questions ranged from the earnest ("What's
your greatest regret?") to the creative ("Make up a concept
for a doomed TV show") to the curious ("What's your great
idea to improve the cell phone?"). Out of 25,000 tweets,
Pogue has gathered the very best 2,524 into this
irresistible, clever, laugh-out-loud funny book. The
World According to Twitter is truly a grand social
networking experiment, in which thousands of voices have
come together to produce a unique and wonderful record of
shared human experience. Some samples: Compose the subject line of an email message you really,
really don't want to open.
To my former sexual partners, as required by law (@markowitz)
RE: What seems to have been your car (@pumpkinshirt)
From: Your Publisher. Subject: Ha, good one! Could you send
the real chapter now, please? (@ Lookshelves)
Make up a prequel to a famous movie.
Mr. Smith MapQuests Washington (michaelbuckman)
Snakes in the Terminal (@justinchambers)
We're Running Low on Mohicans (@rllewis)
There Goes Private Ryan...I Hope He'll Be OK (@slightly99)
Describe your 15 minutes of fame.
My stepfather was "The agony of defeat" guy on ABC's Wide
World of Sports, before the ski jumper (he was the car
spinning out at Daytona 500). (@BigDaddy978)
I juggled for Clinton's inauguration. 20 minutes of FBI
pat-downs, and then I wound up throwing knives around the
president anyway. (@McEuen)
I'm on a Girl Scout cookie box (have been for 9 years, so
it's longer than 15 minutes)! (@libbyfish)
Add 1 letter to a famous person's name.
Yo Yo Mad: Angry violinist (@eboychik)
Gringo Starr: Best drummer north of the border (@eboychik)
Tronto: Sidekick of the Canadian Lone Ranger (@pumpkinshirt)
Thomas Hobbies: Life is just a bunch of nasty, brutish and
short weekend projects (@louielu12)
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