Book review: The World According to Twitter
As mentioned earlier, one of my tweets was published in David Pogues twitter-book and as a result I got a free copy of the book. That’s obviously a huge bias so you should probably ignore this review completely :).
Anyway, the book is a collection of the best answers to 95 questions David asked his followers via twitter. The questions, and answers, range from quirky to funny to surprisingly serious and even at times useful. For a book written in a medium that embraces a short attention span it’s surprisingly readable and even captivating.
It’s a fun book that is an excellent gift, especially to someone who is a twitter-naysayer as it actually does show how twitter can be a fun and useful medium. You don’t need 500 000 followers to get good support, help or comic relief but it does help if you are writing a book :).
The twitter-natives might walk past it and I’ll admit, I would probably not have thought of buying it myself. That said, I laughed out loud several times and smiled almost all the way through the book and realised that we should all make room for happy, silly and fun books like this in our bookcases!
