Tuesday, October 6, 2009

This Is Not a Posting - Impossible Tweets


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'Impossible Tweets' Posted on Twitter today:

This is not a tweet.

This tweet is false.

This tweet is not here.

This tweet does not exist.

.sdrawkcab ton si teewt sihT

This tweet was deleted.

This tweet is not emotionally satisfying.

This tweet will not appear until tomorrow.

This tweet will not appear today.

Posting Monday, November 2, 2009.

This tweet is a fragment.

This tweet is not a fragment.

This is a retweet.

This tweet is untrue.

This tweet is wrong.

Posting Updated Tuesday, November 10, 2009


This tweet is fake.



This tweet is not real.



This tweet is meaningless.



This tweet is factual.



This tweet is not in English.



This tweet is in French.



This is impossible.



This tweet is too long.



This tweet is illogical. (Attributed to Mr. Spock).



This tweet is not in the timeline.



This tweet is not factual.

This is a previous tweet.

Updated Sunday, November 15, 2009:

100 years from now...this tweet won't be here...

Updated Tuesday, November 16, 2009:

This tweet is random. (Apologies to Brent Spiner).

Updated Thursday, December 10, 2009:

Define normal.

Where is the universe?

The Paradox of Twitter - Does your tweet have a noumenon?

Phwitter or Sophister? http://bit.ly/5hWjyu The portmanteaus of philosophy and Twitter. Which is the more appropriate? The former, being the joining of love (philo) and twitter - or the latter, being the joining of knowledge (sophia) and twitter.

Updated Sunday, December 13, 2009:

This tweet is real.

This tweet is not real.

Phenomena are not real - only noumena are real.

This tweet is a noumenon.

This tweet is a phenomenon.

This tweet is zen.

This tweet is not zen.

This tweet is not.

This tastes like zen.

It tastes like zen, it walks like zen, it looks like zen, but it is not zen.



FOM: Rene Magritte, Klein Bottle , Douglas R. Hofstadter,



Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (ISBN 0-465-02656-7) and Self-Referential.






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