Twitter as a Narrative

Twitter can be notoriously overwhelming if you deign to to browse the public feed. Thousands of random thoughts and snippets of conversation de-contextualized and served up like so many TV channels flipping past at a huge rate. Twistori, however has created a truly interesting Twitter inexperience. Looking at Twitter not as a utility, but as an opportunity for social experimentation, Twistori feels more like collaborative art than useful social utility. It puts the poignancy back in the internet. In some ways Twistori feels like it the embodiment of what the web had promised to do for humanity at it’s inception: Bring us into closer community. Ultimately, no technology can deliver the intricacies of the human heart on demand, but seeing the Twistori text scroll up out of black with endless echoes of expressed emotion from nameless people reminds you of something: Someplace out there through the mess of wires, switches servers and fiber, you are connected with real people.