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• I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.

  Eric Ladin

  Trying, Followers, Too Much

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• I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Ideas, Too Much Information

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• If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Interesting, Crafts, Leading Me

  "Anthony Bourdain Talks ‘No Reservations,’ ‘Hunger Games’ And The Death Of Angry Bobby Flay". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

  Tony Blair

  Office, Should

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• I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.

  Lewis Black

  People, Insane, Sometimes

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• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

  Iain Banks

  Cutting, Trying, Hitting

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• Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Grandmother, Perspective, Google

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• I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

  Prabal Gurung

  Updates, Wonder, Careful

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• I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

  Steven Spielberg

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

  Robin Sloan

  New York, People, Dawn

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.53, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?

  Robin Sloan

  Mean, Media, Doe

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made of the same stuff as table sugar. Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Couple, Thinking, Oxygen

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.188, Macmillan

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• Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Country, Song, Farewell

  Hans Christian Andersen (1901). “Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Complete)”, p.811, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Two, Use

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2012

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• I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Events, Swearing

  Neil Gaiman‏ @neilhimself, twitter.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.

  Richard Ford

  Ignorant, Alive

  Richard Ford (2012). “A Piece of My Heart”, p.142, A&C Black

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• Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Space, Forever, Email

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• Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

  Howard Rheingold

  Mean, Decision, Mindfulness

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• Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.

  Tucker Max

  Talking, Robots, Corporate

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• We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.

  Regina Brett

  Smart, Phones, People

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• I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

  will.i.am

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, Perspective, Trying

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• I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

  Dan Stevens

  Mouths, Like You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Impact, Futility Of Life, Finding Yourself

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• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  Bryan Adams

  Clever, Media, People

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