How to Leave Twitter
by Grace Dent
Audible (audiobook)
When you can no longer see the point of experiences or emotions if you can't tweet them, it's time to leave Twitter. So says Grace Dent in her throwaway book on how to do just that, plus a lot of other random topics related to those 140-words-max messages. Other reasons for getting a real life include not allowing others to steal your ideas. Your intellectual property rights for Twitter concepts, she points out, are 'about as strong as if you'd written the idea on a toilet wall'. Dent, who claims 54,851 followers (at the time of writing) and who has quit Twitter 117 times, only to break her pledge within days each time, says she will stop for good eventually, although for now it's her form of going out when the truth is she cannot be bothered to leave the house. Twitter has also allowed her to form friendships that do not have face-to-face contact as the goal. Dent, who narrates her book in a northwest England accent that might alienate audio fans, has until this volume written mainly chick-lit novels. How to Leave Twitter is just as light. And it also feels hastily conceived and written.
