In the summer of 2010, it hit me that there are three main categories of tweets. There are marketing/pr tweets from companies (or people who are companies) who are keeping their profile high. There are intense bombardments to get the word out about an event/disaster/cause. And, mainly, there are brain farts (no, there’s no more elegant way to describe it), people blurting out whatever is in their heads at the moment. “Off 2 mall 4 JEANS! (fingers crossed)” “Why do cafeterias always smell like tuna & oranges?” “New Pratchett. <3 Anybody else?” “Dear Man on Subway: pull yr pants up. I so do not want 2 c yr butcrack!” Those kinds of things.
While times change, people really don’t. I started wondering what people once upon another time might have tweeted if they could have. From there it was only logical to give it a try. For each of three consecutive months, I selected a different time and place and put myself in the head of someone who might have lived then/there. Not rulers or geniuses or people who otherwise wandered into recorded history. Just ordinary people like me; like us. And every day of that month, in the voice of that person, I issued a single tweet.
Together, each month’s tweets told a story — a Twitter Novel.
