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Twitter Wit is a book of Twitter’s wittiest messages, edited by Nick Douglas and coming out Fall 2009 from HarperCollins. Want to contribute? Just log in and tell us which of your tweets you’d like to see in print. Then follow @twitticisms to stay updated on the book. If we use your tweets, we’ll credit them to your Twitter username so people can find you.
Is this an official Twitter book?
Twitter Wit is not affiliated with Twitter Inc. We just love the site and its users, and they seem to like us too. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is helping us publicize the book—that’s why he encouraged his followers to come to this site.
Is it safe to give you my login info?
Yes. We don’t save it and we don’t spam you or your followers. We just need it to prove that you own the tweets you submit.
How do I submit a tweet?
Log in here with your Twitter username and password. Then (on another tab of course) go to your own tweets by visiting Twitter and clicking on your icon in the top right. Click the date and time under a tweet to view just that tweet. Copy the URL, then come back here and paste it. (You can paste just the numbers at the end, or the whole URL.)
Who’s behind this?
Twitter Wit is edited by Nick Douglas, a writer and avid Twitter user who wants to get more people to make little creative acts each day. HarperCollins is the publisher. Kate Hamill is the HarperCollins editor; she also edited Not Quite What I Was Planning, a book of six-word memoirs that partially inspired Twitter Wit.
Is this book a get rich quick scheme?
The words “get rich quick” and “book” do not belong in the same sentence. We tried to pitch MTV on “The Real Tweet” but they insisted on having Carson Daly host it, with T-Pain singing tweets in Autotune and maybe some Twitter birds in bikinis, and we just had to pass.
Are you going to sell my tweet on a T-shirt?
Some businesses think they can take anyone’s messages and sell them without permission. We don’t. That’s why we’re asking you to tell us what we can use. We might find new ways to publish tweets that you submit, and we might quote you in promotional material, but it’s going to be about the community (okay, and the book). It’s not about wringing money out of you. T-shirts are a silly place to put a tweet.
“Tweets”? Seriously?
Like the user lonelysandwich once said, sometimes we wish Twitter was called “Ultimate Badass Report.”
For any further questions, email twitticisms@gmail.com.