Erin McKean Quotes

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

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

I think Twitter is kind of fun, it's not deep and it never will be, but it's a great way to communicate one-liners and to sort of see what people are laughing about. It's a terrific source of misinformation.

We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.

I do like Twitter. Writing is a solitary pursuit, and it can get lonely. I like to go into Twitter for a short period of time, communicate with clever friends, and then switch it off. That's perfect for me.

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

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.

I don't want no mail. Send me a Facebook message.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

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

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Twitter is really - I got very addicted to it just because it's so simple, and it's like a video game for comedy writers to just do a one-liner about something.

I wouldn't be without Google, and I love Facebook.

I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.