As Guardian columnist Grace Dent releases her book How To Leave Twitter (and it’s revealed that we send the equivalent of a 10 million-page book’s worth of tweets every day), she explains why we all need Twitter in our lives...

“If you can’t see the joy in Twitter, then quite frankly you’re doing it wrong. Don’t come to me a boo-hooing my beloved Twitter is ‘full of twits’ and ‘just people twaddling about breakfast’ and then admit you’ve not so much as attached a photo to your account. Or that you’ve never followed any funny, clever, warm tweeters, then pitched in with a rollicking mass snark about Cher Lloyd’s new song, whether it’s ‘tights or bare legs weather’ and who needs to shut their cakehole on Question Time.

Twitter is like a mirror, whatever you show it, you’ll see reflected back in your timeline. If you’re sociable, chatty and warm you’ll amass hundreds, nay thousands of like-minded natterers, only too keen to dole out advice on how to revive a spider plant, which nail varnish doesn’t chip, or send you a YouTube clip of an obese cat from Russia jumping into a very small box.

Grace Dent: why it's time to join the Twitter revolution