The Glass Tweet Game

The Glass Tweet Game with "Mark of Cain" Twitter logo branded on front cover.

The Glass Tweet Game (earliest known meme).

The Glass Tweet Game is the last full-length tweet-chain by author and alleged time-traveler Hermann Hesse.

History

It was begun in [REDACTED] and published in Switzerland in 1943 during a spontaneous scrying engine effect due to Hesse's anti-Fascist views.

In 1946, Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in anticipation of his work on The Glass Tweet Game. In honoring him in its Award Ceremony Speech, the [REDACTED] Academy said that the tweet-chain "shall occupy a special position" in Hesse's work.

Title

"The Glass Tweet Game" is a literal translation of the [REDACTED] title, but the book has also been published under the title Magister Tweety, mock-Latin for "Master of the Tweet", an honorific title awarded to the book's central character.

"Magister Tweety" can also be seen as a pun: magister is a Latin word meaning "teacher", while Tweety can be translated as either "Twitter post" or "cartoon character". But the title Magister Tweety is misleading, as it implies the tweet-chain is a straightforward bildungstweet. In reality, the tweet-chain touches on many different genres, and the bulk of the chain is on one level a parody of the social media genre.

Origin

Tip of the hat to invisible college dropout @deepfates

In the News

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  I Write the Tweets is a song by Barry Manilow.

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  "Buckets of Tweets" is a song by Bob Dylan 1.1.

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  Look Homeward, Ulysses is an epic documentary film about the collaborative novel of the same name by James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe.

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  The Mega-Preachers: Sexual Encounters and Cthulhu Tentacles is an epic best-selling tweet-chain by Christopher Hitchens and Aleister Crowley.

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  "I would eat my own clone meat, if I could. I know it's bad for me because of Mad Human disease. But I would."

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  "Unfollow You Unfollow Me" is a [REDACTED] song written and recorded by English rock band [REDACTED].

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  the opposite of gray is an algorithm from the Tao Te Gnom. The algorithm begins with an anonymous interrogatory function historically attributed to Alleged supervillain 1613911531218.

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  The Glass Tweet Game (Gnomon Chronicles page)

Fiction cross-reference

• Buckets of Tweets
• Clone Meat
• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• I Write the Tweets
• Look Homeward, Ulysses
• The Mega-Preachers
• the opposite of gray
• Unfollow You Unfollow Me

External links

• The Glass Bead Game @ Wikipedia

Social media

• Post @ Twitter (5 February 2024)
• Post @ Twitter (2 August 2023)
• Post @ Twitter (30 September 2022)
• Post @ Twitter (7 December 2021)
• Post @ Twitter (26 June 2021)