TweetBooks – A Paper Based Twitter Experiment

tweetbookA 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.

6 Comments

a_lil_spaz  on November 21st, 2008

I’m up for it! We’re having a BTUB up here in Brisbane next Friday, otherwise we have a Christmas party on Dec 12th I believe which we could easily get a book filled by interested Twits.

Andrew  on November 21st, 2008

Awesome! Well DM me on twitter with your address and I’ll send over tweetbook #2 :)

entregreeneur  on November 30th, 2008

Cool concept Andrew!

Would you like to hand me a tweetbook at #wordcampau tomorrow? (If you’re attending)

I reckon it could do the rounds through the day then depart with someone on a mysterious journey :-)

cheers,

Bradley

Andrew Beeston » Tweet Books - A Twitter Experiement Update #1  on December 11th, 2008

[...] 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. [...]

mg1418  on February 25th, 2009

Is this like a blank journal version of http://www.BookCrossing.com?

Andrew Beeston » Does Twitter really bring people together?  on June 11th, 2010

[...] their way to money with ‘how to use Twitter better’ courses. After having fun with my #tweetbooks experiment (and not really following it up for a while), I would love to know how Twitter has brought people [...]

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