Inspired by telling me that is on Twitter, a thread about the authors I wish had Twitter accounts and what I think they would be posting.
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Isaac Asimov
Tweets about advances in AI and comparisons of the current period to the fall of the Roman empire, and is an enthusiastic participant in chess games via tweets.
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The Brönte sisters
Charlotte and Emily each have 10x the follower count of Anne. All three mostly tweet dark takes on society and occasional photos of lonely English moors.
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Douglas Hofstadter
Subtweets and meta tweets all the way down. Retweets his own tweets and then retweets the retweets, ad infinitum.
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Charles Dickens
Constant semi-serious jokes about how bad London is and how the Tories are tearing the social fabric of the country to pieces. Posts are always a single sentence but nonetheless manage to span several tweets.
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Machiavelli
Tweets quotes from 'The Prince' interspersed with commentary on how brilliant Trump, Johnson and Berlusconi are.
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Agatha Christie
Creates Twitter choose-your-own adventure stories à la . Links to articles about unsolved murders. Runs alt accounts for Poirot and Miss Marple.
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Bahaha this whole thread is epic
Still want Marshall McLuhan:
Breaks all twitter norms
Replies to every tweet with nonsencial compilation video mashing together meme GIFs and TikTok clips
Builds recursive twitter bots that infinitely debate the nature of language with each other