Tweet Books – A Twitter Experiment Update #1

Since the first book went out – and was never heard from again (probably never having been picked up) I have given out a further 4 books. Two were posted, one to Melbourne and another to Queensland where they have been for a while.

Book 2 and 3: Retrogrrl started with her tweet book (I think book #3?) and has subsequently passed it on to Northern Ireland – where we will hear from it shortly no doubt. Dramagirl has also received a tweet book and hopefully will update us soon with it’s whereabouts or who she passed it on to. These two posted books will continue to move around the world hopefully and grab more stories as they go.

I passed on two other books since then, one to Dan Milward of Instinct who has it in New Zealand as we speak. Haven’t heard anything from him about where it’s up to or what (hopefully it’s not misbehaving!) – but I know that he did have a dream lately where he was a spider. Maybe you would like to keep track of your dreams in case you get this book!

Matt Mullenweg from WordPress had tweet book #5 – he passed it on fairly quickly I believe, I can’t quite remember the question I wrote on that one but it’s out there in the wild somewhere now. I think it was passed through hands here in Sydney but I haven’t heard a tweet from it lately.

Have you seen a tweet book? I would love it if you could take a photo and add it to this post via a link or let me know on twitter.

TweetBooks – A Paper Based Twitter Experiment

A few years back I came across an exciting experiment/project called the 1001 Journals Project, blank journals were passed around the world by hand or by post and each recipient would fill out a page as their journal. It was a pretty big success at the time – and though I never saw the journal I signed up for I quite enjoyed watching the progress of it over some years.

So I have a small experiment of my own that I wanted to try with people on Twitter. I like to call it #tweetbook. Yeah not very original but you know, it’s descriptive.

Here’s How It Works

• A blank A6 book is given, sent or left with a Twitter user.
• A question on the front page is the stimulus for you to respond to on any blank page.
• Once filled in – let me know (@niphal) and then pass it on to a fellow Tweeter.
• Each book will contain a different question so it doesn’t matter if you them more than once.

Pretty easy huh? Well I dropped off the first one today at Pyrmont at a street called Experiment St and Tweeted the location via iPhone. Well wouldn’t you know the map showed up in Drummoyne. _Nice_.

But there’s a few more to come! Want to be involved? Well add me on Twitter or leave a comment and I’ll make sure that you know about it when there’s a new book coming out.

Book #1 has the question : Where else would you rather be?

Would you like to play? I’m going to be sending out books 2 and 3 soon – let me know where you are and I’ll post one to the first two people to respond.