Tweet Quotes - Page 6

• What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.

  Teju Cole

  New York, Phones, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  People, Chloe, Most Random

  "Exclusive Chloe Grace Moretz Interview". Slide 3, www.seventeen.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Form, Written

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

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• I often don't endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Talking, Important

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

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• I often get asked by people 'Is your Twitter real?' and things of that nature. I'm never sure how to respond to that. My Twitter account is completely 'real' in that everything I tweet is something I have earnestly thought or something that has actually happened to me.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Real, People, Accounts

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't feel I can say otherwise. Those tweets have a specific sense of desperation to them, because I write them when I feel like I don't have anyone else to talk to - as if Twitter is the only thing that will accept my insanely inappropriate thoughts without judgement.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Writing, Judgement, Mind

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.

  Mira Gonzalez

  People, Sometimes, Imagine

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I often tweet things that I would feel too horrified/embarrassed/ashamed to say to a friend or loved one, even though most of my friends and loved ones read my Twitter account.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Loved Ones, Ashamed, Embarrassed

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

  Mira Gonzalez

  People, Consciousness, Streams

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Emotional, Insane, Want

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.

  Roxane Gay

  Self, Trying, Use

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Editing, Self, Kind

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?

  Roxane Gay

  Lame, Ignored, My Favorite

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.

  Roxane Gay

  Ocean, Joining, World

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• First tweet, best tweet, I always think. I try not to work them too much or else they get Pie Dough Disease, which is where the dough has been to too much college and doesn't understand that it is dough anymore and refuses to be shaped. Pie Dough Disease! Poems get that too.

  Patricia Lockwood

  College, Thinking, Pie

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.

  Patricia Lockwood

  Hurt, Literature, Force

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I really don't have time "to Twitter," it's not something that should grab your day. That's a big misconception, actually, about the whole service. You don't go out of your way to tweet, you just post when you've got something. Hopefully, not while you're driving. It complements your life more than takes over your life.

  Chris Hardwick

  Hopefully Not, Over You, Way

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2009.

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• People ask me why I don't tweet. Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

  Blake Lively

  People, Sick, Ask Me

  "Blake Lively's Cover-Shoot Photo Gallery" by Alyssa Shapiro, www.glamour.com.

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• I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

  David Sedaris

  Gone, Pretending, Not Sure

  Live Chat with Readers, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Character, Down And

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of himself". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.

  T-Pain

  Auto Tune, People, Tunes

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• Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.

  Dick Costolo

  Keys, Authenticity

  "Twitter CEO: 'Authenticity' is 'key to a great tweet'" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. December 6, 2013.

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• For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.

  Natasha Leggero

  Discipline, Comedian, Gauges

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• Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Average, Practice, Common

  "Twitter's Impact On Iran Protests Examined". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 19, 2009.

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• With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Mean, Creating

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.112, Penguin

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