Promotion
FLASH SALE! Save up to 50% off on select items & get free shipping on orders $45+
World According to Twitter
Contributors
By David Pogue
Formats and Prices
Price
$9.99Price
$12.99 CADFormat
Format:
ebook $9.99 $12.99 CADThis item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around August 15, 2009. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.
Also available from:
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)
Were 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
- On Sale
- Aug 15, 2009
- Page Count
- 304 pages
- Publisher
- Black Dog & Leventhal
- ISBN-13
- 9781603761734
Newsletter Signup
By clicking ‘Sign Up,’ I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Hachette Book Group’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use