World According To Twitter

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