The Twitter History of the World Author:Mitch Benn, John Holmes Great moments in history are hilariously condensed into 140-character tweets in this amusing overview of historical events — 75 key moments from history are picked and reported in tweets?those 140-character maximum bite-sized chunks that are so familiar to Twitter users?and anyone who has read a newspaper in the last six months?today. But this bo... more »ok is more than just a straight re-telling of history. . . Twitter is perhaps the most potent and versatile phenomenon yet thrown up by the web and the authors have created a fresh, hilarious, original and just occasionally (sort of) educational book which takes full advantage of the huge popularity of Twitter.« less