If tweets, those 140 character messages sent on the Twitter service, are in fact nothing more than status updates and we personify objects, events and actions, then anything measurable can tweet.

The question everyone answers with their tweets is “What are you doing?”
The answer to that should be another counter-question: “Do we care to read?”

Even a simple tree could tweet about what it sees all day, how it interacts with insects, animals and the wind, how it grows, sheds leaves.. A private tweet to me by my laundry machine might still be useful to me at least but does the world need to know? Isn’t it enough already when I tell it to all in my own tweet stream?

Fictional accounts like @DarthVader are fun to read, and so are real, human accounts like @_Syma_. Both can’t tweet on their own and thus rely on real people who write their stories. However, this is only so long fun as it stays within the account’s personality.

Using Twitter as a micro-blog, the daily life of a tree indeed could turn into a beautiful story when carefully written – with a professional level of children books or poetry in mind. Otherwise it would turn into a dead branch of the twitterverse. Why not let an atom whine about its breakup? continue reading…