What do you think?
Rate this book
A Twitter Year: 365 Days in 140 Characters
From the Arab Spring to the Royal Wedding, the rescue of the Chilean miners to the fall of the News of the World and the London Riots, compelling tweet-by-tweet accounts freeze-frame the breaking of the biggest news stories of the past twelve months, alongside profiles of top tweeters, striking visual analysis and fascinating statistics.
In the year the 'micro-blogging' website celebrates its fifth anniversary, Twitter continues to grow at an incredible rate. A global phenomenon, there are now an estimated 200 million accounts around the world, with everyone from the British monarchy to Lady Gaga tweeting their perfectly formed 140 character messages. And it shows no sign of slowing down: during two hours on the night of Osama bin Laden's death, average activity peaked at a record-breaking 3,440 tweets per second.
The Twitter Year gathers together some of the funniest, sharpest and most insightful voices on Twitter to bring you a unique celebration of modern global communication.
In the year the 'micro-blogging' website celebrates its fifth anniversary, Twitter continues to grow at an incredible rate. A global phenomenon, there are now an estimated 200 million accounts around the world, with everyone from the British monarchy to Lady Gaga tweeting their perfectly formed 140 character messages. And it shows no sign of slowing down: during two hours on the night of Osama bin Laden's death, average activity peaked at a record-breaking 3,440 tweets per second.
The Twitter Year gathers together some of the funniest, sharpest and most insightful voices on Twitter to bring you a unique celebration of modern global communication.
- GenresNonfiction
288 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2011
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
February 25, 2020
I actually enjoyed reading this book just because it feels like a time capsule for me, I mean I’m reading it almost 10 years after it was published and it is very interesting for me to see how a lot of people (including myself) saw twitter as the future before. Back then tweeting (and I guess until now) is the quickest and shortest way to get news and updates in general and another another way on how to vent out anything towards anyone.
The book is very short and it means well and I think if I read it back then when it was first published I would probably give it 4 stars instead of 3 but there are better books out there on Twitter and unless you are as interesting on twitter as I am I do not think you would really enjoy this book as like what I said there are just better books out there. But still a pretty solid book.
The book is very short and it means well and I think if I read it back then when it was first published I would probably give it 4 stars instead of 3 but there are better books out there on Twitter and unless you are as interesting on twitter as I am I do not think you would really enjoy this book as like what I said there are just better books out there. But still a pretty solid book.
August 1, 2012
It pretty much reflects what our communication processes have come to. It's interesting to think about this phenomenon as a hard reality rather than a trend, from revolutions to rescuing efforts after natural disasters. I would've skipped the whole celebrity part but I guess you have to be inclusive.
January 1, 2012
Rather boring. I had hoped that the compilation of tweets would be better curated and more impressively presented. Nope. Not really. It wasn't worth the time it took to wade through it.
July 18, 2012
This was an amusing look at twitter status updates over the course of 2011.
March 28, 2013
Labs atskats uz iepriekšējā gada lielākajiem un nozīmīgākajiem notikumiem.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews