YOUR TWEETS IN A BOOK (PDF)

Do tweets read differently when they are part of a book? Does context change the tone and scope of your ideas? Explore what happens when content that is ephemeral by nature is preserved in printed form. This book is both an archive and an irony; an object that quickly becomes obsolete, given the exponential speed on which online content is generated every day, but also an artefact that is always there to remind you of your brief passage on the overwhelming flood of information.

We now also offer a PDF only product. In this way you could print it at your local print-on-demand service or save it as a (partial) backup of your tweets.

A minimum of 80 tweets is required for PDFs (only personal posts, no retweets are counted). The maximum amount is yet to be tested. Twitter allows us to scrape 3200 tweets for free, so in theory, the PDF can hold 3200 tweets. We scrape your tweets online, so only delete your twitter account after our process.

The images on the left are merely an example of how one of our books will look like. Please be aware that you are ordering a book made of your tweets, not the ones on display here.

YOUR TWEETS IN A BOOK

Do tweets read differently when they are part of a book? Does context change the tone and scope of your ideas? Explore what happens when content that is ephemeral by nature is preserved in printed form. This book is both an archive and an irony; an object that quickly becomes obsolete, given the exponential speed on which online content is generated every day, but also an artefact that is always there to remind you of your brief passage on the overwhelming flood of information.

A minimum of 150 tweets is required for printed books (only personal posts, no retweets are counted). The maximum amount of tweets for a printed book is around 650 (700-page book). If you have more than 650 tweets, the book will give an interesting insight into how you used Twitter as a communication tool, but it won't be an entire archive. We scrape your tweets online, so only delete your Twitter account after our process.

The images on the left are merely an example of how one of our books will look like. Please be aware that you are ordering a book made of your tweets, not the ones on display here.

EXHIBITION ONLY ITEM*

Observers use comment platforms in YouTube to leave a mark on what they have observed. The reverse can be actualised. The observer becomes the observed when their words transcend the scrolling page and become the content of this indexed dictionary. Search for a letter, skim through the comments. Is there a different weight on a printed opinion? What is the content and what is the medium?

Due to the data protection act (DPA) and copyright policies from the YouTube Platform, this object is not for sale, it is only available for exhibition purposes in art galleries and similar venues.

If you would like to feature a book made of a YouTube video please contact us.