Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less

by Scott Beale on August 25, 2009 · 2 comments

Twitter Wit

“Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less”, a new book by Nick Douglas featuring a collection of “the Funniest Tweets of All Time”, has just been published.

Sometimes, what happens on Twitter shouldn’t stay on Twitter.

Twitter Wit is the first ever compilation of Twitter aphorisms and witticisms, celebrating a medium that has enabled millions of users to broadcast their lives and quips within Twitter’s 140-character limit, thus reinventing wordplay in the tradition of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde. This collection includes hundreds of the most memorable and hilarious tweets to date, demonstrating that inside every moment is a joke waiting to be written.

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1 Andrew Mager August 25, 2009 at 9:48 am

Awesome, @nick has a great sense of humor.

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2 gman August 26, 2009 at 5:19 am

what there is in common between a particular twitter post and the sentence that asserts this twitter post can itself be put into a twitter post/sentence.

Brilliant!

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