If you’ve used twitter for even a few days you’ve probably realized that all you’re doing is posting little blurbs about what you’re doing. But if you put together all the tweets someone has made throughout their lifetime you would get a rich description of that persons life.
It interested me to see that James Bridle did exactly that, he composed a book consisting of all the tweets he had ever written over a total of two years. He used a custom script that he had made to pull all of his entries from twitter and sent it to Lulu.com to be printed up in book form.
As James put it
“When Twitter is inevitably replaced by something else, I don’t want to lose all those incidentals, the casual asides, the remarks and responses. That’s all really. This seems like a nice way to do it, and I’ll probably do it again in a couple of years time.”
Backing up your data is always a good idea but would you have ever thought of backing up your tweets? And what better format then as a book.
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