A Book of Tweets

Continuing in the trend of bytes becoming things, there is a service that allows you to print a 200 page book of your tweets. A Tweetbookz is roughly 28,000 characters on 200 pages wrapped in a hardbound cover. For around $30, a Twitterer can save their tweets from the "fail whale."

Personally, I think the price and customization are lacking for Tweetbookz as compared to photo book offerings. More importantly, Tweetbookz represents a larger trend of users wanting to print their digital lives for sharing and archiving.

Since our tweets are not necessarily poetic masterpieces, most of us will probably not shell out the money for this printed record. Looking back at your tweets, after all, is probably like looking at your school yearbooks - shockingly funny and disturbing at once.

Watch this guy unwrapping his Tweetbookz to get the idea.

Sharing Twitter Tweet Book with the world from TweetBookz on Vimeo.

Comments

[Michael Josefowicz]

I agree with "I think the price and customization are lacking for Tweetbookz as compared to photo book offerings."

But I wonder if the tweets had QR codes in place of the tinyurls it might make a difference. It could then become a pretty cool way of assembling footnotes for research. Or links to the users' facebook page or twitter stream.

I also think that if the books were available as 4 by 6 paperbacks in black and white - lowest price to get into print format - it would open lots more use cases.

2me, Tweetbookz points to an opportunity in K-12 and College Ed. Twitter is now moving into a being a useful tool in education. The last instance that came across my radar is at http://bit.ly/adoVZN

The point is that if twitter continues to get traction in education, both in high school and college, I have to believe that publishing an edited version of the tweets with links to web resources would work in the marketplace.