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Everytweet: The profundity of public consciousness

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Every Tweet lets you watch us scroll byThe experimental website Everytweet rolls the public twitter feed across the network, one “tweet” at a time. Twitter, a social networking and micro-blogging service, enables users to publish short (140 words max) messages, “tweets” in the twitter jargon, on the web. Created by Boston Web Design Company BeehiveMedia as a “zen-like anthropological study,” the experience is enthralling and engrossing, the snatches of public conciousness juxtaposing with beautiful humor and at times profundity.