Historical Tweets: The Completely Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World

WCronkite

This just in: Twitter has actually existed since the dawn of time, and history’s greatest tweets have finally been compiled.

06:33 PM October 24, 1986

 

Nostradamus

I predict that an uproarious book will be made of the funniest tweets of history’s most famous figures. Circa 2010. Then the world can end.

12:16 PM April 21, 1555

 

VP_Al_Gore

This book is based off the hit website HistoricalTweets.com, which you can find on the Internet, which I invented. You’re welcome.

9:40 AM March 9, 1999

 

Honest_Abe

I grew up tweeting by candlelight and can say with all confidence that this is the funniest blog-to-book ever.

11:32 PM  October 31, 1864

 

Paul_Revere

The British are tweeting! The British are tweeting! The British are tweeting!

10:58 PM April 18, 1775

 

Henry8

A book with historically hysterical comments from @AlexanderTheGreat, @Gandhi, @JohnWayne, @Hitler, and more? I’d kill to read it.

10:27 AM June 15, 1509

 

WillyShakes

A bounty of bloggingly amusing and all-new mirthful twitterings! To tweet, perchance to dream!

12:01 PM December 21, 1604

 

Socrates, Napoleon, and Billy the Kid say, “We haven’t laughed this much since Bill and Ted’s after-party!”

Beard and McNayr introduce thousands of years of tweets, from Adam's first tweet through the beginnings of the modern world to major events of the recent past, in this smart and creative take on the twitter phenomenon. Full color throughout.

OUTRAGEOUS HISTORICAL REVELATIONS IN FEWER THAN 140 CHARACTERS!

 

THEY TWEETED WHAAAATTT? History’s most famous personalities share their ridiculous, scandalous, and humorous thoughts. From the ancient tweets of @Plato and @Socrates to modern updates from @Napoleon, @Hitler, and @BabeRuth, Historical Tweets has all the answers to history’s biggest questions: What happened to the dragons? What does “four score” mean? WWJT? For those who can handle only 140 characters’ worth of history at a time (and don’t mind breaking their history teachers’ hearts), this is the perfect book.

 

@Kissinger Which button do I push to erase my last 18 and a half tweets?

TRICKY_ME

9:52 PM June 20, 1972

 

 

I live my life like a candle in the wind. Whatever that means.

LOL #mwah #mwah

MARILYN!

7:09 PM July 18, 1953

Self-appointed Twitterstorians Alan Beard and Alec McNayr are the 1-2 punch of McBeard Media, a creative and copywriting shop.  Together, they’ve worked with clients like Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, Janus Capital, Alcatel-Lucent, UCLA, Pepperdine University, Mann Theatres, and The ABC Broadcast Network.  They created the Historical Tweets blog in late 2008, and five million page views later, they got this book deal.  Visit McBeardMedia.com to learn more.