Margaret Atwood loves Twitter

Margaret Atwood gets it! Social media — and by that I mean the Web as a whole as well as social network apps — is a conversation. About her early experiences with her followers, she writes:

They’re sharp: make a typo and they’re on it like a shot, and they tease without mercy. However, if you set them a verbal challenge, a frisson sweeps through them. They did very well with definitions for “dold socks” – one of my typos – and “Thnax”, another one. And they really shone when, during the Olympics, I said that “Own the podium” was too brash to be Canadian, and suggested “A podium might be nice.” Their own variations poured on to a feed tagged #cpodium: “A podium! For me?” “Rent the podium, see if we like it.” “Mind if I squeeze by you to get onto that podium?” I was so proud of them! It was like having 33,000 precocious grandchildren!

via Margaret Atwood | How I learned to love Twitter | Comment is free | The Guardian.