Creating a Twitter Loop

on January 29, 2008

Note: hashtags.org has banned me for spam and I understand. Sorry guys! The experiment was stopped as of 11:00 JST

Last night I did a little art experiment: What happens when you use a service like TwitterFeed.com to feed your Twitter status updates back into itself.

For this experiment I:
  • created a user called loopyloop
  • used twitterfeed to update both the RSS and Atom feed
  • used the great service hashtags.org to keep track of the activity

I was hoping to see some interesting emergent behavior, but the end result was a simple update every half an hour with 5 updates.

I do think it is interesting and important to think about full-artificial organisms living and looping through our cyberspace.