Topic: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim

[sam]

Have you joined the Twitterverse? All over the world millions of people are posting their 140-or-­fewer-character tweets online via Twitter. As a confirmed Twitterer, I wondered what it might have been like if Twitter, and all its users, had been around for, oh, the past few thousand years.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=140-character-study

lol.

[Simon]

I wondered what it might have been like if Twitter, and all its users, had been around for, oh, the past few thousand years.

We'd all be twits? 

[sam]

lol - I signed up earlier today - http://twitter.com/starrydude

[Simon]

  You're safe from me on there. 

[sam]

good!

[Simon]

[Rik]

I think Twitter should insist on tweets following the Haiku format.

[Simon]

[Clive]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=140-character-study

lol.

 

[Rik]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

In contrast to English verse typically characterized by meter, Japanese verse counts sound units (moras), known as "on". The word on  is often translated as "syllable", but there are subtle differences between an "on" and an English-language "syllable". Traditional haiku consist of 17 on, in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on  respectively.

[Simon]

I knew that.   

[Rik]

 

[sam]

http://haikuhabits.com/2008/11/29/ten-people-to-follow-for-haiku-on-twitter/