When it comes to Twitter tweets I try to write things that are brilliant or sweet

Mitt Romney’s email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they’re from a bot, he’s fixed the problem.

If you want to write a negative review, don’t tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.”[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn’t be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that’d be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

The justice system in the West has a lot of problems,’ Poe said, ‘but at least there are rules. You have basic rights as the accused. You have your day in court. You don’t have...

Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.

…if you’ve got writer’s block, you aren’t empty – maybe it’s just like Twitter – overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while…

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there’s no better time for it.

I’d be damned if I listened to the same money-grubbing whores who’d sell their ideals and principles for their fifteen minutes of fame; the ignorant buffoons that live in a one-dimensional 140-character world. Tweet tweet,...

Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are.

Terrorism’: the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Your LinkedIn profile must be consistent with how you portray yourself elsewhere. Not only should your official résumé match the experience you list on LinkedIn, but it also should be consistent with Twitter and public...

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2… priceless.

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

Ultimately, I try to think of my application’s main codebase as just stringing together various components and code from many sources. It just controls logic and flow. The real nitty-gritty is handled behind the scenes....

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

Show your netiquette, to become cyber friends with those you have met, on the internet. NetworkEtquette.net

Twitter: Up to the minute details that are minute. I’d like to update and reaffirm my love for you every sixty seconds.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Hating “The Great Gatsby” (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

I realise people exist who don’t read. But it’s like I knew there were people who didn’t breathe or eat: I can’t imagine a life like that.

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.

Losing the Internet has forced them to interact verbally instead of microblogging their lives, but a lot of them still talk in Tweets:”Ugh! I’m standing in line at the post office.””I’m not eating the crusts...

New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to ‘make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015’. He added: ‘I am Ed, the Almighty One.’Defeated brother David Miliband overheard muttering: ‘Now I know how Wayne Christ...

Social Media begins with a story – your story.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.

…some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness – but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry – it can be very compressed and intense…

Don’t ever tell people on Twitter that you’re tweeting while you’re driving, because they’ll come unglued. It’s worse than saying you’re cutting up kittens.

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

Twitter fascinates me because it’s real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

Master online branding. Online branding makes you known for something specific by people who have not even seen you physically, before.

Terrorist’, noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

I realise I’m behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so much.

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I’m confused. Also hungry.

In my experience, requirements change quite often, or new situations will arise that weren’t anticipated at the start of the project. If the situation can be addressed with a plugin, I just whip open the...

One day I’ll be a grandma who’s been gangbanged.

Facebook Fun is refined. Reader reviews are rewarding on Goodreads. Retweets are readily available for Twitter teasing. Stay within the Netiquette.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater ‘Emperor’ of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

I don’t keep up with Twitter all day long.

We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it’s tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

I’m off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.

Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I’m considering is an enormous help.