Stephen King just perfectly summed up Twitter in 2 simple sentences

Nailed it.
By Sam Haysom  on 
Stephen King just perfectly summed up Twitter in 2 simple sentences
The Twitter King. Credit: Leigh Vogel/WireImage

He may have written some incredibly long novels, but Stephen King does brevity well too.

You only need to read some of the many, many Twitter barbs he's aimed at the U.S. President to know how lethal he can be over a shorter character count.

On Sunday, the horror master decided to tweet his thoughts about Twitter itself. And the simile he used pretty much nailed it.

On the one hand it's sort of surprising that he's now saying he likes Twitter after he described it as an "intellectual dead zone" just last month. But still -- maybe the micro blogging site is winning him over?

Plenty of people liked his description, too.

Others, meanwhile, had slightly different variations.

Like it or loathe it, you can't deny that King's simile is a pretty evocative one.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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