I’m late to the Twitter party, but a few weeks ago I decided to start an experiment: tweet the best sentence I read every day. (NB: Someone else had already claimed my actual name, so I had to go with my alter ego: ShamBlanderson.) “Best,” in this context, can mean almost anything: funny, beautiful, enlightening, stylistically amazing. My first tweet was a factoid from a New Yorker story about Whole Foods: “The key variable in deciding where to put the new stores is the number of college graduates within a 16-minute drive.” (I love the specificity of sixteen minutes.)
Other examples include: "'In a world where books have long lost all likeness to books, the real book can no longer be one.' (adorno)"
I really like that one. It reminds me of what Rob Walker is doing over at Murketing.
In all seriousness, though, Anderson's stated motivation is very similar to what I hoped to accomplish by highlighting a paragraph each week: "The object is to use Twitter as a daily note-taking system: to document, organically, the various text-streams I actually pay attention to — novels, magazines, blogs, whatever." I just think a paragraph is a meatier portion to record.
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