The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags – those little checkerboard marks that look like this # – were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.
You can provide a short-format content, and it can grow, and it can spread virally across the entire Twitter system, and it can contain within it a link to something that’s much longer, that’s a long essay or that’s a video.
I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.
I’ve been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
I’m always my toughest critic. I’m setting the expectations for myself, and that’s enough pressure. I don’t need to worry about the haters or the Twitter trolls or what everybody else thinks.
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.
I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don’t have another way to be.
The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn’t handle it all that well. Don’t get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.
Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I’m geeky like that.
Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion.
I got rid of Twitter, and I got rid of Facebook.
Just because someone uses Twitter doesn’t mean they shouldn’t use WordPress, and vice versa.
Sometimes I’m happy – you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I’m pissed off – you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don’t want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, ‘He’s like a regular person at his job right now who’s mad.’
Twitter is the perfect complement to television. TV has always been social. You talk to the person you’re sitting next to on the couch. You talk to the people you’re – you know, at work with the next day around the proverbial water cooler.
I love the action that I’m able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you’ve got young women following you.
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
I find it funny when women share makeup-free selfies on Twitter or Instagram, and it’s such a huge deal.
The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.
I don’t spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.
I set a goal for myself everyday when I write – 10 pages a day – and it’s much harder because I’m too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it’s always on and it’s a real distraction. It’s a major distraction.
The minute you hear the word ‘share,’ you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they’ve just discovered.
I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.
Stop threatening to kill people on Twitter because you don’t like what they are saying!
I interact with my fans mostly through Twitter, and I like to do livestreams about every two weeks, where I say, ‘Ask me anything!’ and I just sit there with my computer for 15 minutes, taking a break from work, and answering their questions.
Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
My office is on Twitter. I don’t tweet myself – at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.
I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn’t going to do in my stand-up routine.
Rob Kalin, Etsy’s founder, never finished college. Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey – the founders of Twitter – are not college graduates. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, is another dropout. And, of course, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
From the Twitter responses we got with ‘Best Friends Forever’ and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is.
Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, ‘Nikki Sixx sucks.’ And I’m supposed to take that personally.
All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga’s twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.
Twitter is awesome to share news with fans, but I would never choose to only have social media and put everything in my life on display.
I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I’m like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.
Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.
It’s fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there.
A weird sort of awareness set in, like, ‘Wow. My standup isn’t just separate from everything else I do anymore.’ With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.
I don’t care to read about anybody’s Twitter. I don’t care what you’re eating for breakfast or where you just went. For me, it’s mainly just to connect with my supporters and the people who are showing a mad amount of love.
I’ve never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don’t know why.
I don’t have a massive fan base. I don’t have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.
Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It’s amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.
Now look: I love Twitter. But let’s not kid ourselves; when it comes to a free and open Internet, Twitter is a part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.
Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.
It’s a little bit of a ‘if you can’t beat ’em – join ’em’ mentality for me when I think about Twitter.
When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences.
When you’re a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh… I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It’s a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
If I could only follow one person on Twitter, it would be Heidi Moore. She’s a financial journalist at NPR’s Marketplace.
I’m on Twitter for work, but I hate it. I encourage everyone to delete it if possible.
What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they’re like, ‘God, you’re my idol, I really admire you.’ It’s like, ‘Admire me for what? What have I done?’ It’s not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It’s just… I know I can do more.
I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did.
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn’t just a platform for technological innovation: It’s showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.
