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Title: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: sam on April 25, 2010, 21:26: Quote
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.
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Simon on April 25, 2010, 21:49: Quote
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? :)x
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: sam on April 25, 2010, 23:01: lol - I signed up earlier today - http://twitter.com/starrydude
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Simon on April 25, 2010, 23:18: :aarrgh: You're safe from me on there. ;)
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: sam on April 26, 2010, 00:35: good!
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Simon on April 26, 2010, 00:46: :lol2:
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Rik on April 26, 2010, 08:52: I think Twitter should insist on tweets following the Haiku format.
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Simon on April 26, 2010, 09:47: :dunno:
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Clive on April 26, 2010, 10:03: Quote from: sam on April 25, 2010, 21:26
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=140-character-study

lol.

:pmsl:
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Rik on April 26, 2010, 10:05: Quote from: Simon on April 26, 2010, 09:47
:dunno:

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

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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.
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Simon on April 26, 2010, 10:31: I knew that. :scoot:
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: Rik on April 26, 2010, 10:32: ;D
Title: Re: 140-Character Study: What if Everyone Had Always Been on Twitter at the Same Tim
Post by: sam on April 26, 2010, 14:07: http://haikuhabits.com/2008/11/29/ten-people-to-follow-for-haiku-on-twitter/