Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can’t get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it’s a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Kaling frames Twitter as a parallel outlet to the collaborative constraints of television writing. In a writers’ room, jokes and story beats compete for limited space and must serve the episode’s structure; many ideas inevitably get cut. Social media, by contrast, lets a comedy writer publish small, self-contained comic observations instantly, without gatekeeping or time limits, and test what resonates through immediate audience reaction. Her joking reference to “bully[ing] the other writers” underscores the push-and-pull of collaboration while also highlighting Twitter’s appeal as a space for individual voice, rapid iteration, and direct connection with fans.