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    WooferTime.com - Tweeting In Reverse

    Suppose that tweets worked the other way around. What would happen if instead of having a maximum number of characters you had a minimum number to cover? That is exactly what the team behind this initiative has dreamed up.

    Instead of sending out a micro message that can have up to 140 characters, you will tweet a macro message that must have at least 1,400 characters.



    Of course, this is an experiment. It has three basic aims: 1) Encouraging users to be eloquent, 2) Encouraging users to employ richer language (such as adverbs and even some rhetoric figures) and 3) Instill a “DEA (don't ever abbreviate) mentality” into the mind of users. In short: creating an anti-twitter mentality, but in a good sense.

    The updates which are posted this way are named “Woofs”, and some of the featured ones include excerpts from narrative works and collections of poetry. It seems to me that might be one of the best uses this could be put to once we move past the novelty value – the promotion of longer texts that have unity, without taking the user from site to site.

    Woofertime.com In their own words

    “When 140 characters isn’t nearly enough.”

    Why Woofertime.com might be a killer

    If you wish to tweet differently, this is the right site for you to set your eyes on.

    Some questions about Woofertime.com

    What chances has it got of being used by a large public and turning into something as widespread as Twitter?

    Category: Comm
    Posted 29 Months 8 Days ago by | Source: The Next Web
     
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