“I cannot explain the president's obsession with me or any of the other targets of his tweets.”— Richard Blumenthal, msnbc.com
“Politics has ruined Twitter. People used to talk about silly things on there, about comedy, about culture. Now everyone’s just mad all the time.”— Judd Apatow, vulture.com
“I have never seen social interaction this fucked up, and I’ve been in prison.”— Kat Rosenfield, vulture.com
“It’s always funny to me when people talk trash to Youtubers and then are shocked when we respond. We are real people. We check our tweets!”— Matthew Santoro, twitter.com
“Twitter is art. Twitter is writing. It does feel a little bit corny to say that, but at the same time, it would be foolish to deny the literary merit of tweets and to deny the historical significance Twitter will have.”— Mira Gonzalez, thecreativeindependent.com
“I spend way too many hours on Twitter and I know way more than you think.”— Colleen Ballinger, youtube.com
“If Jill Filipovic wrote that exact tweet every lefty on here would be dragging her for days. That's a fact. This is what I hate about this whole irony/weird left culture on here: no principle is more important than being cool with the people in it.”— Freddie DeBoer, twitter.com
“I wanted to know what was going on. I wanted to be stimulated, I wanted to be in contact and I wanted to retain my privacy, my private space. I wanted to click and click and click until my synapses exploded, until I was flooded by superfluity. I wanted to hypnotize myself with data, with colored pix…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“Announce your Instagram account to your followers on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or any other social network you’ve already built a following on.”— Sarah Dawley, blog.hootsuite.com
“An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.'”— Lena Dunham, dailymail.co.uk
“Twitter might still feel big for journalists who spend all day on the platform, and fully 59 percent of Twitter users do get news on the service, third after Reddit and Facebook. But only 16 percent of U.S. adults use Twitter in the first place, and only 9 percent of adults get news there. Compare t…”— Lucia Moses, digiday.com
“Pay more attention to what’s going on in the world. If you struggle to keep up with the news like I do, just make simple changes in your life. Set a news site as your browser home page. Follow Twitter accounts or Facebook pages that provide daily updates in your newsfeed”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“me: 2016 can’t get any worse twitter: we’re deleting vine”— elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey, elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey.tumblr.com
“There is plenty to do in this world, and plenty to be vigilant about. But let’s stop pretending that the ticker-tape of the news feed is anything other than what it is: addiction and manipulation masquerading as a social good. Then we wonder why we’re sapped of reason and willpower and perspective.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“I reject the idea that the pot is nearly at a boil and I must watch it closely until the exact moment that it happens.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“Twitter isn’t designed to help you get in and get out with the best information as quickly as possible—it’s supposed to suck you into either a contentious world of argument and debate or an echo-chamber that reassures you everyone thinks like you do.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“Do you stalk your own phone every five minutes (or less) to find out if he’s responded to your texts, Facebook message, Tweet, or any of the other 50 ways you tried to reach him?”— Megan Bostic, thoughtcatalog.com
“I'm pretty sure we could convince Gary Johnson that picking up your phone and whispering a candidate's name to Siri counts as a vote.”— Rob Fee, twitter.com