The last time I messed around with Twitter was mid-2007. I basically used it to post little status updates a-la Facebook and experimented with the (then) newly released ActionScript 3 API. About a month into it, I got tired, deleted my account, and haven’t touched it since.
Now, all of a sudden, the US media is talking about Twitter as if it was some grand, new technology. They are, in general, freaking out about it. This gave me the idea last night to begin subverting the service in some experimental way. A person is supposed to use it to provide updates and communications to their “followers”. I’m gonna use it to generate small bits of stream-of-consciousness poetry which will most likely have no direct communicable affect.
There’s a new page on this site called “Twitter Poetry” where you can access this stuff directly, if you so wish.
On a related note, I’ve got about 30 minutes of material recorded for a new An early morning letter, displaced release. I don’t write nearly as much poetry as I used to which is pretty bad since that is actually the origin of the project. I’m hoping this Twitter experiment will give a little more energy to that area.