Quietweet - A Simpler Twitter Reader
A cute little read-only Twitter client from James that only displays fully-formed tweets: no hashtags, no @-replies.
Tags: tweets
Twitter conversation with ftrain
Lance Arthur uses a tweet from Paul Ford as a starting point for a text adventure.
Janey Godley’s Blog: Tim & Freya the full story & Conclusion!
Strangers on a train.
oldtweets - Laughing Meme
Kellan explains the tech behind Old Tweets …and also the thinking behind it:
I think our history is what makes us human, and the push to ephemerality and disposability “as a feature” is misguided. And a key piece of our personal histories is becoming “the story we want to remember”, aka what we’ve shared.
oldtweets
A public service from Kellan: the ability to search through your oldest tweets.
That can be my next tweet
A fun bit of Markov chaining of your tweets. Some of mine:
Had a burrito in Barcelona. Thank you get the peacocks plumage.
Stand by to the most helpful. The Fuck Was That type shop and David Byrne walked into a Wikipedia entry?
Last Waltz again. This Is A demonstration of The office doors are they talk right now. Cool your plans.
Picking salad leaves from the people who own them. They’re just resting” at the communal testing lab is!
Heading out the standard option. Alas, there’s no signs of spending Bloomsday as constructive feedback?
Pentametron: With algorithms subtle and discrete / I seek iambic writings to retweet.
Algorithmically-generated combinations of tweets in iambic pentameter. Some of the results are really quite lovely. I’m imagining a poetry reading of this stuff in a hip café …it would be fun.
a world of tweets
A very pretty visualisation of tweets on a map using canvas.