Characters count for J.K. Rowling. And, we are not talking about the magical ones she created in Potterverse, but the absolute literary gems she strings along in Twitterverse. Rowling (@jk_rowling) joined the social networking site in August 2009, like many celebs, to connect with her fans. Twitter also “slakes my thirst for pictures of dogs and otters, political arguments and random connections with strangers, which are hard to come by when your profession demands that you sit alone in a room for many hours a day,” she says on her website. She soon realised Twitter had its own version of trolls, Death Eaters and Voldemort. But she slayed them all with words (who needs swords, duh?). Hidden among her many retweets are 140-character-long takedowns of people who have “an emotional range of a teaspoon” (read: trolls, Trump supporters and The Don himself). She said it best when she tweeted this last February: “They see me Rowlin’, they hatin’.”
Here are a few of Rowling’s best tweets this year:
O-U-C-H
In - Free - Countries - Anyone - Can - Talk - About - Politics.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 28, 2017
Try sounding out the syllables aloud, or ask a fluent reader to help. pic.twitter.com/K1j19EIU5f
Epic burn
Well, the fumes from the DVDs might be toxic and I've still got your money, so by all means borrow my lighter. pic.twitter.com/kVoi8VGEoK
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 31, 2017
Hell? Yeah!
So many people have told me to visit, I might go to hell and see what all the fuss is about. https://t.co/UqEYDOOU77
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 15, 2017
Classy clapback
Guess it's true what they say: you can lead a girl to books about the rise and fall of an autocrat, but you still can't make her think. pic.twitter.com/oB7Aq6Xz8M
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 1, 2017
Breaking bad
When your ex is so noble about the break up you'd almost rather they threw a drink in your face. 💔 https://t.co/zQRd69Wsm0
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 29, 2017
Yer *not* a wizard
You've got to get the letter before you put on the hat, Oliver. https://t.co/KFvRtrwdpy
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 27, 2017
That’s how she rolls
Pick up any of my books or movies. See how it doesn’t say ‘free with this purchase: the right to dictate what the author can say’? That. pic.twitter.com/8Gm1CpjsEa
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 30, 2017
Chill, bro
Happy #InternationalWomensDay
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 8, 2017
or, as it's often called on here, #WhyIsn'tThereAnInternationalMensDay
(There is: November 19th)
Work and waterworks
Rewrite & rewrite & rewrite and if it's still not working, write something different. You're allowed to cry sometimes. https://t.co/tnqKEnsIiZ
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 26, 2017
‘Aww’tter
I woke up today in the belief that there's no form of otter I can't love.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 30, 2017
Then Twitter introduced me to the 'snot otter.' pic.twitter.com/8rnwGCidD9
She said it!
We've all been there. https://t.co/2Z4A1IdEzg
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 1, 2017
Wand’s up
In case the police are reading my notifications, there's a Battle of Hogwarts anniversary tradition going on. I am not on a murder spree. https://t.co/urrUYAMe72
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 2, 2017
Hear, hear
`I don’t think–'
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 12, 2017
`Then you shouldn’t talk,’ said the Hatter.
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland pic.twitter.com/l3kVik6hzz
No alternative fact, this
#FactCheck
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 30, 2017
1. I don't think I'm that tough.
2. I definitely do stupid things sometimes.
3. I'd be so gay if you were the alternative. pic.twitter.com/IbIZfsSDgY
She has the “best words”
Nothing to worry about here. Just the man with the nuclear codes, keeping us all updated on which insulting hashtag he's considering next. pic.twitter.com/kSpe8TEvjF
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 1, 2017
