Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Becoming a part of Twistori


According to the site, Twistori is the "first step in an ongoing social experiment."

Twistori pulls tweets from Twitter containing specific keywords: 'I Love', 'I Hate', 'I Think', I Believe', 'I Feel, and I Wish. It then publishes the tweets it finds anonymously in a non-stop, auto-updating river of news. The result is a continuous stream of feelings from the Twitter community.

The brainchild of Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, it's not clear from the site what the second step in the experiment is. But for now, watching the feelings of anonymous Twitter users scroll by is strangely addictive and exciting when you see one of your own tweets appear.

I'll leave you with this (slightly altered) thought to bear in mind when you're watching the flow of thoughts and feelings on Twistori:

"Sin writes Twistories, goodness is silent."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

According to Goethe, all us Twitterers are sinners - and watching the 'I Hate' stream backs this up. But it's also perfectly counterbalanced by the 'I Love', 'I Wish' and 'I Believe' streams, showing that there's still a lot of love in the Twittersphere!

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