BS: Mud Tweets challenge?

Subject: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 01:21 AM

I saw the 100 word challenge thread on the main page of mudcat, I thought , how about a 140 character challenge, the max size of a tweet?

Subject: RE: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 11:15 AM

Since I don't tweet how does one know when to quit? Does one count every little twiddle?    Surely we can come up with a different method?

Subject: RE: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Emma B
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 11:41 AM

If the aim is brevity why not combine this with Haiku poetry which was traditionally used to 'communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity'

In modern Japan Haiku poems have been used to replace the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft 'error' messages

Some of my favourites

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Subject: RE: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 06:21 PM

I've seen quite a few people run haiku through twitter.

Subject: RE: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 07:13 PM

I visualized us using Twitter (Who came up with that name and why?) size posts but so far I'm the only one who has followed JtheS's lead.