So this was fun. While spending a rather hungover Sunday afternoon following Silicon Christmas, immobile on the couch and learning about Angular.js, I happened to tweet the following:
I've committed to writing 750 words every day on http://t.co/OeysxkHs1g. Mind you, my upcoming 23hr flight to .au is going to hurt my streak
— Trish Khoo (@hogfish) December 15, 2013
I received this reply:
https://twitter.com/jamesmarcusbach/status/412296262029824000
I spent almost 750 words forming a semi-coherent answer, until I gave up and James gave me the answer:
https://twitter.com/jamesmarcusbach/status/412306944649482240
To which I of course responded:
@jamesmarcusbach Can you explain that in 750 words for me?
— Trish Khoo (@hogfish) December 15, 2013
A short time later, James sent me a prezi which looked like this:
Inside the “O” was written:
A tweet has 140 characters which divided by 6 for average word length plus space gives about 23 words per tweet. But that will lead to hard to read text. So if we say an average of 18 words per tweet you can comfortably reach your goal in 42 tweets.
I was a little slow.
https://twitter.com/jamesmarcusbach/status/412313286395166720
https://twitter.com/jamesmarcusbach/status/412313435964055553
Of course I did. An hour and a half later, I got this:
https://twitter.com/jamesmarcusbach/status/412330965030014976
4 thoughts on “750 Tweets”
This is a great post. 10/10 would read again.
Nice post. Thanks for sharing , to you and James.
About that prezi presentation: are you sure that 5 times 9 equals 42?
I’m with @gradzislaw. I was highly entertained until I got to the statement that 42 is well-known to be the product of 5 and 9. I was waiting for a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference!
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