This was an enjoyable read and I would recommend it. thanks for letting me have an advance copy. I'm new to this author.

If you love or are indifferent towards this site, this book is for you. It's captivating, informing, and will make you look at the entire world of social media differently. The authors did a great job with research and contemporary comment.

My first impression based on the cover: It’s merging with the current Twitter logo and the 2010’s Twitter logo. TBH, I don’t quite like the ‘Twitter’ font and it should be just the same like the ‘A biography’.

The description: My first experience in using Twitter was in 2015, where I’m constantly checking my favorite TV series ‘Oh My English’ tweets. But I don’t quite active at that time, also I know how to use it in such simplicity – liking tweets that I follow and retweeting. This book has 3 core chapters that make Twitter becoming ‘twitterish’ and usability perfect – the @username, the hashtag and the retweets – explaining each of them with four objectives, especially appropriation, incorporation, contestation and iteration. Those objectives were being highlighted by some interviewees with their own archived tweets, people who are working in Twitter Inc. and both of the authors themselves. For me, Twitter itself has a global accessibility, just in a single and fresh tweet in a mere seconds, rather than Facebook or Instagram. Twitter too have a core importance to spread political issues, environmental changes, or a large-scale movement that takes place in somewhere else, including live events that will notify someone to join in like the NBA post-games.

Conclusion: Twitter – it depends on the user himself/herself!

This was better than I thought it was going to be considering it is about Twitter. Thank heavens it isn't about some of its infamous users. It is more about the creation and a few of its popular features, some of which I am not used to or familiar with as a user. I am a part-time user myself because I don't know how to do long posts, so I keep to Facebook and Instagram.

The author of this book kept pushing the popular features. As a biography about Twitter as one of the main social media platforms, this was so-so and a little flat. More about Twitter's creation could have been discussed. It was still an interesting insight to Twitter but I would still recommend it since most people are on at least one or multiple social media platforms.

Thanks to Netgaley, the author and publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

This is not so much a book as is is a really long research about Twitter. The authors don’t tell interesting stories, they conduct interviews to prove a point about a specific feature of Twitter.

This book is long from the very first few pages. I stayed in it for the full length but found myself wanting it to be over each time I started back in.

I recommend this book if you have to write an article, a paper or have a desire to read about Twitter however you might get the same info from Wikipedia.

I DNFd this book. I use Twitter everyday in real life but the book just wasn’t for me. It was a little boring after awhile.

A great biography of Twitter, taking us back to the early days of the micro blogging platform. Of particular interest is how user behaviour, and feedback shaped 3 of their biggest features.

This was a delightful, fun read. For anyone unfamiliar with Twitter or interested in social media history of the platform, it's a quick and easy read that covers some of the major features on the platform and how they came to be. It was interesting to read so much back story about the early development of Twitter. The authors call it a biography of Twitter, which I agree is an accurate description of this book.