As you know, I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. And while I’m abroad on training camp, I train three times a day, often for two hours a time, and I haven’t got time to respond to all the people that ask questions.
The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets.
I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I’m preaching to the choir.
I don’t have a Facebook page and I don’t think I will but Twitter for me is a way to take control of the message. Kind of wrestle it back. It’s something I’m enjoying.
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood – and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.
You can tell a person’s morale from their Twitter feed. I like that; it’s so honest. And I like being able to follow people who I respect and admire, and the possibility of them seeing my comment about them.
You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You’ll know it when you hit a home run.
I did not leave Twitter.
I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they’re on Twitter. It’s just stupid.
I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there’s already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, ‘Really, one more?’ So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection – there’s no middle man muddling it up.
I heard from other people on Twitter that they’re very excited about Twisty Halloween costumes, and all I can think is, ‘You people are nuts!’
Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don’t want to see that every day… Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!
One of the perils of being a Z list celebrity is Twitter. Its brutal.
In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore – something always leaks out and gets spoiled.
I can’t think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
I get letters and messages on Twitter saying I’ve become a bit of a role model, which is wonderful.
I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day – you can’t prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.
Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It’s such a unique situation with the home Olympics.
Whether you’re a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they’re in your life, whether you really want them or not.
While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
There’s a lot of people blocked on my Twitter for various reasons which I don’t need to get into.
Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn’t follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I’m okay at. Like, I’m just not particularly witty.
I think that it’s really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It’s really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can’t thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.
I don’t read Twitter.
Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn’t believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I’m a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.
I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they’re all verified as real people – I’ve either seen them perform, or we’re mutual fans of each other, something like that. I don’t have any authentic, ‘Catfish’-worthy stories.
I’m not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I’m trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There’s a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
Think of everything in Seattle – Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley – Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?
You won’t see Moonves on Twitter.
I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I’ve got so many followers that I’m not able to see them that much. I’ll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.
I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, ‘Oh my God, what are you doing here?’ I didn’t know who she was, and I was like, ‘Sorry?’ She goes, ‘Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn’t expect to see you here.’
When I did ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera,’ there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.
I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it’s sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.
I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.
My favourite people to follow on Twitter are… my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.
We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible. We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
I do have a Twitter account, and there’s a woman at my agency who got that all set up for me. I don’t know how many followers I have. It’s not one of those things I check on a regular basis.
Amazon’s ‘Twitch’ appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
I have been a big fan of Coco Rocha’s for many, many years. I have seen her walk in runway shows, pose like no other in photo shoots, and naturally follow her every move on Twitter and Instagram.
I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.
Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it’s a total blank slate – which means it’s an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It’s whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.
I love when people on Twitter give advice.
Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it’s only people who like you.
I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It’s 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.
The reason I became an actor was applause and being the center of attention. So, short of that, Twitter is probably a good alternative.
I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.
I don’t do fights on Twitter.
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last – that once-crushing ‘weight’ has become, for the most part, a memory.
