Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.
I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.
Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
Twitter is almost novelistic.
Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
'What is Twitter?' has always been a tough question to answer.
Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours.
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.