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The smell of buttered toast simply talked toToad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.
Kenneth Grahame— 1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.8.
The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
max stirner— Cambridge 1995, pp. 61-62
Judging by mainstream media in the U.S., you would think the world is ending because of fake news and Russian trolls on Facebook and twitter. But around the world, the worst danger posed by the spread of fake news actually happens through private messaging apps.
glenn beck— "Disinformation campaigns have weaponized WhatsApp into very real fake news," GlennBeck.com, 25 July 2018
We're not done with fake news on social media yet. More than 80 percent of the twitter accounts that repeatedly spread misinformation during the 2016 presidential election are still active and sending out more than a million tweets a day.
Marrian Zhou— "Fake news on Twitter is still reaching millions, study finds," CNET, 5 October 2018
There is a trouble called twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.
recep tayyip erdoğan— (2013), quoted in Turkish newspaper NTV. [10]
I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.
jimmy wales— The Independent, October 23rd 2011
The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.
— Susan Orlean, in Hash, New Yorker, 29 June 2010.
All is now desolate, fantastic, and ambushed with ghosts; the archaeologists twitter among them like bats.
— 1953 Of Angkor Thom. Pleasure of Ruins.
