The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.
I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.
I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.
Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.
After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'
Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool.
I'm on Twitter, and I have over 10,000 followers. Which is pretty modest compared to Charlie Sheen.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.
If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.
I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.
Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.
With Facebook and Twitter, everyone wants to publicize their innermost truths.
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.
Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me.
I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
