Tweets on paper

Hilarious. A few questions:
° How do you get your paper tweet to your followers? Some tweeters have hundreds of thousands, even millions. Mailing them would certainly help the U.S. Postal Service cover its budget shortfalls, though regular paper-tweeting would bankrupt the average tweeter.
° How would paper tweets go viral? Would followers then have to get out their tweet pads and then mail tweets to all of their followers to pass on the info in the first tweet? And so on...
° How would tweeters — both private citizens and news outlets — share breaking news? Paper tweets would certainly slow down that process, moving it back to the age of paper newspaper domination, which was not so long ago. (This makes me view tweets as more akin to radio and TV announcements than paper papers.)
° How do you retweet a paper tweet? I'm assuming a photocopier would be involved.

Thinking about the humor of this actually brings up many differences between print and digital communication methods and how moving from print to digital has affected society.

Paper email "nifty notes" are also available. (This elicits both LOLs and YIKES!)

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Comments

[Jen Bilik]

Jen Bilik, owner of Knock Knock, here. Found this via Google Alerts. Love the way you've thought through the mechanics of the meta-nature of the Paper Tweet and the nature of virality. Fun!

[KG]

Hi Jen-

Thanks for dropping by here and very nice to "meet" you!

I've gotten so many chuckles out of the Paper Tweet pad. You certainly got the meta train of thought going.

I signed up for your email newsletter. :-)

[Bhaswati]

I have so experience with the virtual Twitter that this boggles my mind even more! Hilarious.

[KG]

Hi Bhaswati-

So great to get your perspective!

Nice to see you here and hope that your writing is going well. :-)