part 02348-190 of the twitter story

As my thesis is an effort to highlight the physicality of twitter, a social media platform; I’m deconstructing the intersectionality of twitter and democratic states, to understand how twitter has manifested in a state; with hierarchy, citizens, and cryptic rules.

For the mid-term, I charted all the explorations on a 4’x4’ table. As I was building on my speculative projections, I was also investigating the space to gain more information. This resulted in an array of articles that validate and speculate, my perspective of twitter. At each stage, I introduced more questions. And each of these questions were informed by my making process. In week 2 I was looking at aesthetic representation of provocative censorship on twitter platform, and built speculative scenarios with their own rules and goals, which led me to spatial interrogations, which in turn led me to interacting with the space for observations. I thought making a twitter profile is super easy, I’ll make profiles to study the tweets and their pattern. Turns out, its not as easy. After making my first profile, and following individuals like Trump, NRA, Sarah Sanders, and Mike Pence, my twitter id was locked and I was being requested for more data to access my account. And the second profile was stuck in the process. Since I wanted to learn more about the space, I started investigating from scratch, and created fictional profiles, that could be registered on twitter, to understand what does it take to make a profile that’ll stay active. 

I also caught glimpses of code to understand the data points twitter takes from its users and assigns to them. After this repetitive interrogation, I discovered the intersectionality of real and digital life on twitter. And in week 5 I designed a juxtaposition of California’s voter reg form and twitter’s sign up to showcase the same.