For THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TWITTER, David Pogue — NEW YORK TIMES tech columnist and CBS News correspondent — would pose a different “challenge” to his followers on Twitter each night. From those who did his bidding, at 140 characters at a time, the book was born. Here’s just one humorous example from this crowdsourced collection.
Compose the subject line of an email message you really, really don’t want to read.
To my former sexual partners, as required by law —@markowitz
Re: What seems to have been your car —@pumpkinshirt
From: eHarmony. Subject: Your profile has been rejected. —@jadawa
I hate to do this via email . . . —@SusanEJacobsen
Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fw:Catz! lol —@danblondell
What happened in Vegas did NOT stay in Vegas —@jschechner
Your Dad is Now Following You on Twitter. —@CathleenRitt
From: Your Doctor. Subj: Good news, bad news . . . —@Baszma
Urgent notice to everyone who was at the hot tub party last Saturday!
—@lavasusan
From: AT&T. Subject: Your international roaming charges —
@kvijayraghavan
Hi! Remember me? I’m in town!! —@Stefaniya
Error in lab results —@ricksva
From: NIH. Subj: Important new information on link between computer
usage and rapid-onset dementia —@maineone
Honey, you saved those tax papers from 1978, right? —@pumpkinshirt
From: Yale Office of Admissions. File Size: 2K —@perryan
We need to talk. Call me. —@_not_THAT_guy
From: Your Petsitter. Subject: Before you open the door when you get
home . . . —@brianwolven
From: Your Publisher. Subject: Ha, good one! Could you send the real
chapter now, please? —@Lookshelves
Your GM common stock —@scottmarkarian
Did you mean to hit Reply to All? —@Maggie_Dwyer
From: Your eldest kid. Subject: How do you get chocolate sauce out of
the sofa? —@aymroos
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And this begins the end of Twitter
You will eat those words.