By Daniel Rigney
If famous people in history had broadcast on Twitter (big if), what last words of truncated wisdom might they have left behind in the twittersphere? We can only imagine:
William Shakespeare:
2b or ~2b. That is ?
Thomas Jefferson:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve … http://1.usa.gov/TbqtF #1776 @england
Abraham Lincoln:
87 yrs ago r 4dads brt 4th nu nation. Liberty. =ity. Union.* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ @gettysburg #1600
Emily Dickinson:
I'm Nobody. Are you Nobody 2?
Albert Einstein:
e = mcc
Martin Luther King:
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.*
Rene Magritte:
This is not a tweet. @twitter
Siddhartha Gautama:
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*Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (of the people, by the people, for the people) and MLK's Selma speech (the arc of the moral universe) both echo phrases from the sermons of 19th-century Unitarian abolitionist Theodore Parker, but this historical footnote wouldn't fit the confines of Twitter's 140-character limit, or befit the original texts of these two great history-moving speeches.
http://open.salon.com/blog/danagram
If famous people in history had broadcast on Twitter (big if), what last words of truncated wisdom might they have left behind in the twittersphere? We can only imagine:
William Shakespeare:
2b or ~2b. That is ?
Thomas Jefferson:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve … http://1.usa.gov/TbqtF #1776 @england
Abraham Lincoln:
87 yrs ago r 4dads brt 4th nu nation. Liberty. =ity. Union.* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ @gettysburg #1600
Emily Dickinson:
I'm Nobody. Are you Nobody 2?
Albert Einstein:
e = mcc
Martin Luther King:
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.*
Rene Magritte:
This is not a tweet. @twitter
Siddhartha Gautama:
__________________________________________________
*Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (of the people, by the people, for the people) and MLK's Selma speech (the arc of the moral universe) both echo phrases from the sermons of 19th-century Unitarian abolitionist Theodore Parker, but this historical footnote wouldn't fit the confines of Twitter's 140-character limit, or befit the original texts of these two great history-moving speeches.
http://open.salon.com/blog/danagram
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