Book description
Three years ago columnist and author Grace Dent joined new social
network site Twitter, mainly as a place to dump her surplus jokes,
rant about garbage TV and post exclusive j-pegs of her hot new
toenail-varnish. But as every 're-tweet' and 'Follow Friday' saw her
audience figures soar by tens of thousands, Dent found herself
centre-stage in an all-consuming highly addictive social network
revolution. One where the gags, gossip, scandal and backstabbing
literally never stop. Here Dent takes a hilarious, acerbic look at
what's really going on in Twitterworld; who's actually tweeting, who's
really reading your tweets and what's behind the 140 character lies
they tell. She looks at the highs and grotty lows of twitter
addiction, the shameless social climbers, the friends you'll make and
the ones you can't get bloody rid of, the barefaced bragging, the
shameful celeb-stalking, and the truth about 'twanking', twitter
cliques, angry 'twitchfork mobs' and dealing with trolls.
Grace Dent is a popular columnist, author and broadcaster. She's a
regular contributor to the Guardian, 'Grace Dent TV-OD' and a G2
columnist. Grace's Marie Claire column 'Graceland' appears monthly.
Grace has written eleven bestselling novels for young adults, translated
into twelve languages. Diary of a Snob was recently acquired by
Nickelodeon. She's also a regular face and voice on British TV and
radio, working on shows such as The Culture Show, Film 2011, Charlie
Brooker's Screenwipe, The Apprentice: You're Hired and the Lauren
Laverne Show on BBC6 Music. Grace lives, mainly behind a laptop, in East
London. She is originally from Carlisle ('The Manhattan of the North').
Currently she is trying to leave Twitter.
