Time

I am attracted to the real-time aspect of Twitter, both in that it allows instant publication of words from anywhere, via text message, but also because it timestamps each post. On a Twitter page, top = most recent. I developed my Twitter character sonnet to include this time-emphasis. Each line is taken from an adjacent Twitter post, and the top and bottom are stamped to indicate the time frame the words were written.

The ten characters chosen from each post are determined by a chance operation that ensures any ten can appear, including the 'unused' spaces of the 140 character per post allocation.

I created several sonnets from my most recent Twitter posts, collected here