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BS: Mud Tweets challenge?

22 Aug 10 - 01:21 AM (#2970337)
Subject: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Jack the Sailor

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?


22 Aug 10 - 11:15 AM (#2970482)
Subject: RE: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Ebbie

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?


22 Aug 10 - 11:41 AM (#2970488)
Subject: RE: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Emma B

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.


22 Aug 10 - 06:21 PM (#2970684)
Subject: RE: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Stilly River Sage

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


22 Aug 10 - 07:13 PM (#2970707)
Subject: RE: BS: Mud Tweets challenge?
From: Ebbie

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.