Twitter Wit Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less
November 27, 2009 by admin
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Sometimes, what happens on Twitter shouldn’t stay on Twitter.
Twitter Wit is the first ever compilation of Twitter aphorisms and witticisms, celebrating a medium that has enabled millions of users to broadcast their lives and quips within Twitter’s 140-character limit, thus reinventing wordplay in the tradition of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde. This collection includes hundreds of the most memorable and hilarious tweets to date, demonstrating that inside every moment is a joke waiting to be written.
Everybody’s twittering—from millions of regular folks to world-famous celebrities and writers like Ashton Kutcher, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman, Penn Jillette, Neil Gaiman, Paula Poundstone, Susan Orlean, Russell Brand, Margaret Cho, Stephen Fry, Rainn Wilson, and Diablo Cody—they’re all here, and all of them sharp as stilettos.
Much like Twitter, this book is 1% funny, 99% self-indulgent drivel
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this book as a gift to a friend, but reconsidered once I thumbed through it. So bad. So so bad.
I loved this book!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
It made me laugh, that kind of “from the inside like you haven’t laughed in a long time laugh”. How nice.
There’s “wit!” and there’s wit. This is wit.
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
The book is small, so cover to cover it doesn’t take long to read. I sat down to read it prepared to laugh. But, for me it wasn’t laugh-out-loud humor, although I may have chuckled once or twice while reading it. It isn’t that I don’t like Twitter or short, pithy quotes. I have used Twitter for quite awhile and know that there is a ton of humor to be found in its posts — some are original and clever, and some may be downright bawdy. But, they make me laugh. Overall, I was disappointed that this book lacked that kind of wit. For a free read, and laughter in the wild (or vice versa), scroll through BestAt while on Twitter.
English Majors Hate This
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The English snobs in my company hated this book when I showed it to them so much that I knew I was on to something.
It’s funny I think.
Quite.
More LOLs Than Most Other Twitter Books
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Nick Douglas has compiled a very witty string of tweets; some will make you laugh out loud; some you won’t get at all. Of course, that’s not the twitter-ers fault; I’m simply not as hip as I used to be, I guess.
If you’re looking for a nice escape from reality for an hour or so, jump into this book; you can always log on to Twitter later, where you can read how to get really white teeth, for free.
Even if you’ve never posted a tweet in your life, and you think the concept is ridiculous; you’ll probably get a kick out of this collection of clever witticisms. Maybe you’ll even be inspired to open up your very own Twitter account, in the hope that you’ll too find fame (and fortune?) as one of the top tweeters in the twittersphere. Holy Kaw.