“An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.” HardFunnyWinningSocialLossMediaGoldBlameSocial MediaDefenseSwimmingOlympicsMedalAustralianTweetGold MedalsSwimmerLondon Olympics Author:Conan O'Brien
“I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don't want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don't want to be that guy.” KnowsWantGuySocialSoundVoiceHonestMediaHavensEverydaySakeSocial MediaFakeShyThat GuyTweet Author:Hunter Hayes
“The biggest reward is seeing via social media people sending me pictures back with excitement of what they bought from my fashion line. I ReTweet most everyone i see who tweets a photo.” PeopleSocialLinesSeeingMediaFashionRewardsSocial MediaExcitementTweetRetweet Author:Ashley Purdy
“I think social media really is a great tool. It fascinates me when I tweet something and right away you get a response almost immediately.” ThinkingSocialMediaToolsResponseSocial MediaTweet Author:Mario Andretti
“It was a very, very strange experience to go through on social media. Before that, my social media life had been very tame. I had only just dipped my toes in the world of Twitter and was throwing out a tweet, here and there, of very boring and normal stuff. All of a sudden, Pornstache just turned my world upside down.” WorldSocialStuffMediaStrangeNormalBoringSocial MediaThrowingToesHere And ThereTweetUpside DownWorld Upside Down Author:Pablo Schreiber
“The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?” Has BeensGamesSocialBitsCuttingPlayerTeamMediaInformationSourceNewsSocial MediaStormLeagueOur TimeSiteFogSpeculationRumorBlogsTweetWhimMillsJournalisticFauxChurningDrivelGame Changers Author:Robert Lipsyte
“Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.” KnowsLandMediaPoetPrisonHeavySentencesJournalistTurkeysTweetRetweet Author:Elif Safak
“What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy waves. These energy waves could be a Tweet about something you are furious about, like the Keystone Pipeline, or a piece of legislation. Instantly, energy surrounds and adds traction, influence, making it come alive” EnergySocialRealizingTechnologyPiecesAliveInfluenceMediaAddWaveSocial MediaSurroundEntityLegislationTweetFuriousPipelineKeystonesTractionKeystone Pipeline Author:Ian Somerhalder
“People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.” PeopleWantAgeThreeSocialMediaPagesSocial MediaDigitalSecondsLoadTweetHyperSafari Author:Aeriel Miranda
“Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.” FeelsShowsAmericaSocialConsciousnessFeetMediaConcernSocial MediaCriticalPostsProtestCrucialRighteousTweetOutrageRegisterPavement Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.” PeopleKnowsWritingMeanPersonsI CanSometimesShowsAgeYoungSocialKnow HowAirMediaVictimSocial MediaHandleDestructiveBullyingUglinessJunkTweetHighlightsMeanness Author:Gretchen Carlson
“If you're on social media as a performer you can tell. If you don't get any Tweets you know it's bombed. I can pretty much gauge how it's doing by comparing the reception to shows I've done that have actual ratings.” IfsKnowsI CanDoneShowsSocialMediaSocial MediaComparePerformersTweetRatingReceptionGauges Author:Bill Burr
“I have come to think we have to treat Donald Trump's tweets like Snapchat. It's just something that is going to go away. And it flies out of some region of his brain and it goes out into the ether. And usually it's on the realm of media.” ThinkingBrainMediaTrumpTreatsRealmsRegionsGoing AwayTweetSnapchat Author:David Brooks