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Your Tweets Now Have an Afterlife in 'Tweet Heaven'

All hashtags go to heaven.

Unlike the distant, nearly mythical time before the Internet, what we do and write online today is almost always stored in some distant cloud archive, viewable by anyone curious enough to type their name or Twitter handle into Google. Even after someone passes away, their social media accounts remain, undeterred by their nonexistent mortal connections, frozen in time, and functioning as an eerie avatar of their once-online selves.

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It’s through these ideas that the newest project from young New York based artist duo Mister ShaneKevin Roark & Sean Delanty—comes to life. Shane’s Tweet Heaven creates a digital memorial for any Twitter user where you can literally navigate through your own tweets in a 3D polygonal landscape. It kind of feels like a cross between Ebaum's World-era flash games and contemporary digital aesthetics.

Within the browser-based application, your tweets appear as seemingly endless rows of colossal billboards—your best puns sit next to sly #humblebrags, both equally immortalized in your own personal Twitter heaven, each boldly marked with the number of retweets and favorites received. As you explore the surreal landscape, a text-to-speech narrator reads your tweets in a monotone, robotic voice, furthering the sensation that your own voice on the Internet doesn't just belong to you. It’s now part of the internet’s monolithic archive.

If the idea of seeing your own social media antics generated into a digital heaven freaks you out, or if you just don’t have a Twitter account, the application comes with a series of “pre-made heavens” to explore. Both pro wrestler John Cena, and pizza empire Papa John’s tweet heavens are available, as well as heavens for posts tagged with #God & #Meme. The cutest pre-made is undoubtedly Birth, a shrine for tweets from the account @perfectbabies consisting entirely of enormous images of adorable babies doing adorable things throughout the digital landscape.

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To view the afterlife of your tweets or to peruse one of the pre-made options, follow this link to Tweet Heaven. More projects by duo Mister Shane including trippy, interactive websites featuring six-pack workout videos, can be found here.

Via DIS Magazine

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