Richard Dawkins Quotes

Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.

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

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!

People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.

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

People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.

I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun even if it is in 140 characters or less.

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.

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

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.

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

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

'What is Twitter?' has always been a tough question to answer.

I love tweeting.

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

The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.

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.

Unlike Facebook or Instagram, Twitter's core experience isn't about photos. It's a world of text, with occasional embedded photos, animated gifs, and short video clips.

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

I use Twitter as a writing tool a lot.

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

I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.