Shakespeare And Twitter Make an Odd Couple

One of the benefits of creating an open, simple, highly adaptible service like Twitter is the fact that once it takes off, people will try to do a lot of interesting things with it.

Sometimes, people take it too far.

Or not, depending if you think that Twitter of the Shrew - a Twitter adaptation of Shakespeare’s play Taming of the Shrew - is a good idea. Let’s leave the business of describing the project to the creators:

“Spanning 19 Twitter accounts and presented over 12 days (one scene daily), Twitter of the Shrew attempts to live up to Shakespeare’s “Brevity is the soul of wit” proverb, by condensing the play’s iambic pentameter dialogue down to updates of 140 characters or less. Full story...