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Twitter By Post
Giles Turnbull experimented (with willing volunteers) to reply to his Twitter followers by postcard:
Twitter is the contemporary postcard—social updates that are limited by size, but not imagination. For a month, with a billion stamps, our correspondent moved his tweets from the laptop to the post office, and rediscovered the joy of mail.
Like all the best ideas, this one popped into life unexpectedly.
“How about doing Twitter by post?” I wondered to myself one morning.
“Would it work? How? Would it be fun?”
With the help of some willing collaborators, I decided to put it into action, and find out.
It worked like this: everyone involved sent me their postal address, while I headed down to the local Post Office and bought a job lot of stamps. Most of my helpers were here in the UK, but some were in the U.S., one in Australia, and one in New Zealand. I worried about how long the whole thing would take, what with having to wait for international posting times. But I needn’t have worried.
You can see the whole article and more examples here
Posted on January 11, 2012 via prosthetic knowledge with 127 notes
Source: themorningnews.org
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Post for interesting.
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I did something like this four years ago: it was called Post-It the City, and I put post-it notes with Twitter-like...
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