World According to Twitter

David Pogue

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 25000 tweets Pogue has gathered the very best 2524 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.
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