Impermanet

Impermanet was inspired by the question of the temporality/fleeting existence of microblog posts ("tweets" in twitter parlance).

In contrast to more full length posts of seemingly lasting value on a blog or other social network that allows longer and more detailed content (and you may bookmark or tag or some other feature)... Microblog posts are rarely, if ever, revisited.

They are a stream.

This is a perfect metaphor for the Buddhist concept of Impermanence or Heraclitus "river" that you cannot step into twice.

So, what is Impermanet? Perhaps an art/concept project.

You make a post, maybe limited to a few a day. After 24 hours, 10 characters are randomly deleted from the post. After 2 weeks (14 days), all 140 characters of a post are completely destroyed. Off the servers. Never to be found again.

The added benefit of limiting the need for extra storage capacity beyond the current posting volume is an interesting side effect.