Peter Lerangis Quotes

I love reading comments online.

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

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.

I've always been online and available to my fans.

With Twitter and Tumblr, it's easy to get lost in the tidal wave of feedback from fans.

I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you just put out a sentence and everybody laughs or everybody's just sending something back. It's amazing. Same with Facebook, you know? I'm a lot on Facebook and it's just - it's just amazing. And YouTube, of course, as well.

We created the 'Like' feature in FriendFeed because I realized that people wanted an easy way to let others know that they saw what their friends posted and appreciated it. Putting in those simple little gestures is very powerful.

Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.

I like connecting with people through technology.

I'm a bit of a lurker on Reddit.

YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.

Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.

I treat Twitter like I'm talking to my friends.

The whole reason why I have Twitter is to interact with my fans, for the most part.

I'm always trying to respond to my Instagram direct messages, even if they're a little weird. I'll have a Q&A on Snapchat and talk to everyone.

I don't mind Twitter. I think it's a lot of nonsense, but at least, to me, Twitter is just more of a public forum to have conversation.

I think that's the thing I love about making content online - you get instant response.

I think that Twitter is a useful reporting tool sometimes, but an utterly toxic swamp that nonetheless I engage in more than I probably should.

The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.

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

I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.

Twitter's designed to reduce the language, directly out of 1984! It's Ingsoc!