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@everyword |
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2007-2014 |
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@everyword is a twitterbot whose goal was to tweet one English word every 30 minutes in alphabetic order, and therefore tweet all the words of the English language (or, at least, every word from an extensive English word list).The experience started in November 2007 and was supposed to stop on the 6 of June 2014, after 109,229 tweets, with the word ‘zymurgy’. Yet, it restarted the day after with the french word ‘éclair’ and finally stopped at ‘étui’, after that some of the 78 300 followers reacted quite skeptically towards the renewal of the twitterbot. Besides being a twitterbot, @everyword is a language experience about the new contextualization of words allowed by this platform. When displayed next to each other and among the followers reactions and comments, the words themselves gain a new readability and meaning that they would not have in another context. Furthermore, as argued by the Washington Post, @everyword has triggered people to read again and react on their own language, from a passive use of it to a renewal of interest thanks to its new contextualization. |
 Reactions to a tweet by @everyword. 
 @everyword’s tweets in a user’s stream.  |
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Price |
$10 |
Download |
@everyword and the end of the world (1.8 mb). |
Related |
“The Final Word” by Dan Piepenbring, The Paris Review, June 6, 2014. |
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“What happens when @everyword ends?” by Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post, May 23, 2014. |
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Keywords |
appropriation, authorship, context, language, publishing, reading, writing |
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