The World According to Twitter
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Do you “tweet”? I sure do (you can even follow me).
So, being a Twitt (or whatever you want to call a person who Twitters), I was excited to check out the new book, The World According to Twitter
The author, David Pogue, has this to say about the book:
I was giving a talk in Las Vegas, and trying to explain Twitter by demonstrating it. As the audience watched, I fired up Twitter on the big screen and typed to my 5,000 followers: “I need a cure for hiccups… right now!”
Within seconds, responses came pouring in from all over the world. They were weird, wonderful, funny:
- Take 9 sips of water then say, “January.” Laugh now, but you’ll thank me when the hiccups are gone!
- Peanut butter on a spoon.
- Check your 401K. That should scare the hiccups right out of ya.
- I take large sips of bourbon. It doesn’t stop the hiccups, but I stop caring!
We were all cracking up. This wasn’t like anything else on the Internet. No Web page, chat room, or e-mail could have achieved the same effect, in real time, with this many participants. (The results of the hiccup-cure experiment are immortalized on page 74.)
Asking questions of his followers quickly became a new daily ritual. He asked all kinds of questions, and then gathered them together to create this book. The questions range from things like “what’s the best bumper sticker you’ve seen lately?” to “what’s the best advice your parents gave you?”… and many, many more. He then complied the best into the book. I am sure that was no easy task, the man has over a million followers now and he had half a million when the book was complied! You can be one of them too if you want, @pogue.
Here are a few fun examples of what you will find in the book:
Finish a familiar saying in a new way.
He who is without sin . . . has a lot of catching up to do.
–@pennymonger
Make up a concept for a doomed TV show.
“Law & Order: DMV”
–@pastorwalters
Change 1 letter of a familiar title.
Star Wart: The real reason Vader wears that mask.
–@brianwolven
This is the kind of book that is just a lot of fun to read. It’s the kind of book that you can just pick up and look at any time, and find something on the page that makes you smile, laugh, or even think. It’s certainly not a book that you just sit down and read all at once, though you could. It’s more fun, at least in my opinion, in delicious bite sized chunks.
Like I said, I liked the joke section a lot. In fact, there was one that I read to my hubby and at first we didn’t even get it. Finally, when I said it quickly and with a bit of a twang, it made sense to us both.
What do you call a deer with no eye? No eye deer.
