Twitter is like a digital notebook for collecting observations, Rhys Nixon describes over at Entropy, making it an ideal platform for poetry and expression. Twitter also combines humor and absurdism, two elements often overlooked in more conventional literature. But perhaps the most significant characteristic of Twitter is the collaborative process essential to all creative forms. Rhys explains:
So what twitter is able to accomplish is pure collaborative art, which happens loosely over a whole range of conversations and contexts at the same time. Tweets bleed into each other, people have simultaneous conversations about different topics, people retweet and add their own hashtags to these topics, which results in responses to these hashtags. Ultimately, Twitter is a place which is always creative and always creating. The more people use twitter, the more open to creativity they are. The poetic of twitter is both communicative and creative, and if people allowed themselves to take part in this community, they could surprise themselves.
