10 Twitter Accounts to Follow, If You're into That Kind of Thing

Ah, Twitter, the 140-character-constraint social media platform. Such fertile ground for poetry, celebrity mashups and algorithms.

Here are some accounts worth checking out:

• @PoBizNews — Let's start with the obvious. This "News for Poets" handle disseminates aphorisms, tips and BuzzFeed-esque headlines that will have you favoriting and retweeting (everyone's favorite conference, #AWP15, currently trending). Poetry's equivalent of Instagram's @freeze_de; who in the world (or in Canada) is behind this?! xoxo Anon, we love you.

• @JennyHolzerMom — This account hasn't been active since 2014, but neither has your mom. JUST KIDDING! Bio reads: "IMITATION IS THE EASIEST FORM OF FLATTERY." Worth a look and a lol.

 

• @twoemoji — A true gem as far as Twitter goes, this account boasts only 13 followers. But onto the bigger scandal: Did this project end after 19 days? Is it possible that there are only 2,124 unique combinations (permutations?) of any two emoji? Am I even asking that question correctly? Follow in hopes that the new emoji set will produce some kind of follow-up.

• @everyword (2007-2014) and its evil twin, @fuckeveryword (relatively recently-2020) — One man, one weird ambition and a Python script with an alphabetical list of 109,229 words. @everyword's project may be over, but through @fuckeveryword, his legacy remains.

• @NeinQuarterly — Because lolling about #NationalPoetryMonth never gets old. Until May. When it does.

• @KimKierkegaard — Kierkegaard knowledge bombs mashed up with Kim Kardashian's observations. Enough said.

 

• @it_happened and its 420 British companion (1 to 12 and back again), @big_ben_clock — Updates for the Funes the Memorious inside all of us.

 

• @beckettbot — Another vastly underrated account (with a humble 48 followers), this bot scans Twitter to perpetually retweet the last line of Beckett's The Unnamable. A favorite as far as durational pieces go, sans doute.