Roxane Gay Quotes

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

Twitter can be great and very bad.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces.

I enjoy social media so much, and I love, love, love Twitter.

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

I don't have an editor on Twitter. I have an editor in the paper, and so I tend to be less precise in 140 characters and sometimes I leave people confused as to my meaning. And then I make the mistake of engaging and trying to explain it, which just leads you down a rabbit hole.

I learned that every conversation shouldn't be had via social media.

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.

My debut book is a collection of personal stories and advice about communication on the Internet. More specifically, the downfall of communication because of the Internet.

Yes, I am very outspoken on Twitter.

I actually love Twitter, but I don't ... I never know what to ... I get a lot of my news from Twitter. But, I never ... I sometimes just don't think ... I think Twitter is full of a lot of talkers and not many listeners, so I'm happy to be one of the listeners.

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

Twitter is a global town square.

I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it judiciously: it's a self-selected group, so it's important not to start thinking of it as the whole world.

Somebody was, like, what's your favorite thing about Twitter? And I was, like, Twitter. And they're like what's the worst thing about Twitter? And I was, like, Twitter.