The author mentions that someone recently asked them what percentage of Twitter accounts were commercial businesses. His next paragraph begins with something akin to “So I had a think about it for a minute and then told him it was X%”

You had a think about it.

You had. A think. About it.

Sometimes I celebrate those who have been successful without going through the expense of tertiary education and have achieved great success through self-education and dedication. Those able to succeed without having the processes of academia drilled into them. Sometimes people prove that they can use their own initiative to make observations about the world that contribute to human understanding and progress in ways that delight and intrigue us.

Sometimes, people pull things out of their posteriors.

Beware the man with the Social Media Stick who begins to rock back and forth whenever he hears the words “scientific method”.