Sarah Dessen Quotes

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

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

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.

I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter.

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.

The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.

Lots of people do that silly tweeting.

Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It's a horribly mismanaged company — probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there. But it's such a solid franchise it may even work with all that.

Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!" And I don't have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing.

Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.

I want to be one of those cool people that's like, "What is Twitter?" and just be totally blind to it.

But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

I've come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I'm about, and I like sharing with my fans.

Sometimes I'll write a tweet that I'll just be like, 'Why do I have to say this to all of these people?' It's like writing a Facebook status: it's the same. I view tweeting as like writing a Facebook status. Remember when we used to write statuses?

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

I love Twitter.

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

I think Twitter is great.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.