Tag Archives: twitter

Final (?) Toby Literary Tweets

Comc literary tweets from Tobias Wilson-Bates

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Humorless Twitter Boss as Malvolio

Elon Musk sparring with his Twitter critics is like Shakespeare’s Malvolio going after Feste.

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Alas, Poor Twitter–I Knew Him, Ho-Ratio

Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.

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Is Twitter Headed for Bleak House?

Twitter’s case against Musk is headed for Chancery Court, bringing up memories of Dickens’s “Bleak House.”

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The Best Minds Destroyed by Social Media

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by social media,” write a couple of tweeting satirists, referencing Ginsberg’s “Howl.”

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A Comic Tweeter in Love with Lit

My son Toby Wilson-Bates is a master of comic literary twitter. I share examples.

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A President Who Hates Books

No president has been so adverse to reading as Donald Trump, whose contempt for books conjures up images of “Fahrenheit 451.”

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Twitter: Shorter Is Sweeter

Responses to Twitter increasing its character limit to 240 have often been quite humorous, including some limericks. And speaking of limericks and twitter…

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