I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.

Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

We noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook "experimented" with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work.

Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.