No introduction, no context, just words.
These 140 characters inhabit power. The sort of power that can make someone I have never met before from the other side of the world, know how my day is going my simply reading my twitter feed.
I can write whatever I want (in 140 characters or less) and anyone from anywhere in the world can respond to their desire.
Even with its limited text output, Twitter enables the possibility for a global platform.

Just 140 characters thrown together to create words, in a particular order that makes our brains say “yes I understand that”. These words typed in a specific way so that when it is read, it is recognized, like a specific code or language.
People who read my tweets last week were completely unaware of the task I was given but because I wrote it in a recognizable form, people responded. The use of hashtags in each tweet gave the tweets connections and something for my followers to actually follow. I had followers, and I quote, who were “gripped” by it. I gained ‘retweets’, ‘favourites’, ‘followers’; a social media recognition and appreciation
People I haven’t seen or spoke to face to face in years are interested in something I am typing which has nothing to do with them, has no relevance to them and probably doesn’t make much sense to them, all because It just so happens to catch their eye as they scroll aimlessly through their Twitter feed. They feel compelled to respond to it and engage with it.
That’s incredibly powerful and yet so easily done.
To incorporate this into our piece creates an experience for the viewer, it demands responsive engagement from them. It enables a co-authorship of the piece and would be just as much of an experience for us, the performers, as it would for the audience.
I think that using twitter in our performance, and giving the audience some agency through this social media, could potentially create something that both incorporates modern day technology to benefit and improve theatre as well as exposing this type of technology as potentially hazardous to modern theatre.