David Pogue’s The World According To Twitter is funny, witty, and represents some of the best posts found on Twitter. In fact, this compilation combines humor, creativity, and interesting stories about people’s lives.
Enjoyable tweet topics/prompts in The World According To Twitter include:
Identify an irony of life
You’ve lived your life this far. What have you learned?
You know you’re a Twitter addict when…
David Pogue’s book also presents stories about people getting tattoos, cute things kids say, getting dumped, worst job stories, and memories of one’s first kiss.
In addition to plenty of puns and “twitterspeak,” individuals share some of the greatest moments of their lives, as well as many examples of situational awkwardness that I found funny, tragic, and pathetically relatable. Pogue’s book even includes micro-blogs of weird numerical coincidences, wordplay, and my favorite: Summarize a famous book in 140 characters. For example, the following are two of my favorite book summaries:
He was beautiful, so beautiful. All I could think or write about was his beautiful beauty. Oh, and he was a vampire
(Twilight)—@dhersam
You can make it through anything if you don’t lose your head.
(A Tale of Two Cities) —@pumpkinshirt
The World According To Twitter = Much more than a joke book. It’s an enjoyable collection of tweets and wisdom that made me laugh and think about life.
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David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. He contributes a print column, an online column, an online video and a popular daily blog, “Pogue’s Posts.”
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