In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
I’m active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.
I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.
A famous actor told me once – I don’t want to name names, I hate that sort of thing – but I was at his house and he said, ‘Are you on Twitter?’ I said, ‘Yes, I am.’ And he said, ‘There’ll be one day when you’ll have, like, five friends. And in the same day it’ll go to five thousand.’
Twitter isn’t a social network, it’s an information network.
Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?
Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours.
I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending – oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I’m working, grading, or reading, and I’m procrastinating, and I’ll pop on Twitter and be like, ‘Hey, what’s up? Yogurt’s delicious.’
Trump’s Twitter flood of late-night mendacity is an unhindered celebration of fragile manhood, a ceaseless summons to the millions for affirmation, a proclamation to vulnerable men across the land that endless preening and stroking is a normal and imitable way of life.
In this age of omniconnectedness, words like ‘network,’ ‘community’ and even ‘friends’ no longer mean what they used to. Networks don’t exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.
I don’t have a Twitter, so I don’t know what’s happening in that world.
Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.
I’ve read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday.
Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls’ most common gripe against me appears to be that I am ‘posh.’ Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world.
I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my characters would actually sound. It was a very surreal thing to see come to life digitally!
I’m lucky enough to have two different platforms to perform on – I do stand-up comedy, and I have ‘SNL.’ That’s where I make my most controversial statements because I can explain myself and I’m in control of the microphone, as opposed to Twitter, where it’s in the hands of the reader.
Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted ‘prizes’ for participation in fundraisers – books and other neat promo items.
I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
I spend a lot of time talking to young and emerging producers on Twitter, feeding back thoughts and encouraging them.
When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I’m doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can’t do.
My Twitter account status used to say ‘part-time playboy’ on it, but I’ve taken that down now.
I didn’t necessarily intend it for myself, but it just happens with Instagram and Twitter; people come up to me and call me Emrata; they don’t call me Emily. That’s my brand, my identity.
Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
I think a lot of people on Twitter say, ‘Oh you’re really cute. I want to adopt you,’ and things like that, yeah.
I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It’s effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.
I’m amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.
Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it’s a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there’s also such anonymity.
We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBron, the next big Twitter.
The big success stories – Facebook, Zynga and Twitter – are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
I was not familiar with the Internet thing. Honestly, you know with all kinds of Internet media, I was not that familiar. I was not that kind of guy. Accidentally, ‘Gangnam Style’ happened, and you have YouTube and all other sorts of stuff like Facebook and Twitter and so on. So after that, I learned and learned.
I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.
Can you imagine watching ‘All in the Family’ and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it’s happening? I think that would be a really interesting thing.
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don’t go up.
A writers’ ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other’s work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.
I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.
Twitter makes me feel like I have friends all over.
Twitter could save a lot of money by writing its executives’ names on their doors with pencil instead of fancy placards. Like an episode of ‘Suits,’ Twitter execs come, go, change jobs and disappear under black clouds every few minutes. Office administration costs must be astronomical!
I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven’t tweeted anything, and I haven’t followed anyone.
As far as engaging with fans… it’s a tricky thing. I enjoy seeing the feedback on Twitter, etc. It’s probably the actor in me.
I’m not on Twitter, but I am on Instagram and follow Lena Dunham and Usher.
Don’t get me wrong: I love social websites like Facebook and Twitter, but I think it creates way too many opportunities for young people to bully.
Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.
A lot of the times, I don’t have anything interesting to say, so on Twitter, people are constantly sending me sketches they’ve done of Hook, so if somebody’s taken the time to do that, that’s what I retweet and stuff.
I’m rubbish at Twitter.
One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it’s all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal – all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal – like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.
In terms of being a ‘sneakerhead,’ there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That’s the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what’s coming out.
It’s weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It’s a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.
The companies that won’t do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles?
As an investor, I’m always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow’s Twitter, Facebook, or Google?
I feel really humbled because I decided to go on Twitter, and all of my fans on Twitter say one thing consistently every single day, and that is, ‘When are you coming back in movies?’ I didn’t even think people missed me that much.
