Journal of the Collective Me, Website, 2009.
Twitter’s public timeline chronicles an amazingly diverse international community, where preteens, parents, grandparents, college students, working professionals, etc., all have a voice. And these individual voices can be sarcastic, inspirational, desperate, threatening, and even hateful. This project looks to unify all of these disparate voices into one.
Journal of the Collective Me (www.thecollectiveme.com) parses through the Twitterverse, presenting tweets containing the word “me” in real time. Other phrases and words have been filtered out to reduce spam and disguise the source. Content itself is not edited, so the incoming tweets range from happy to funny to sad to serious to obscene (NSFW).
Click the link or image above to visit the work. Once there, clicking on the current entry will produce the next, and so forth.