About
Twitter .txt Accounts are novelty accounts on the social networking website Twitter which tweet out-of-context quotes from other websites. These quotes are typically chosen for their bizzare or cringeworthy content.
Origin
One of the first Twitter accounts to quote various sources while using the “txt” name was @wwwtxt, which takes its quotes from Usenet conversations between 1980 and 1994. The Twitter, which ahs been running since October 2010, has made over 3,700 tweets and is followed by over 23.8 thousand people.[1]
Has anyone else here seen the World Wide Web? It's one of the best new things on Internet. ☯94MAY
— wwwtxt (1980-94) (@wwwtxt) July 7, 2014
Spread
In February of 2012, the Twitter account @Fanfiction_txt was created, which takes compiles various out-of-context quotes from the fanfiction website FanFiction.net. This account is one of the most popular “txt” accounts, with over 64,000 followers as of June 2015.[2] In July of the same year, the account @TumblrTXT was created, which archived quotes from the social networking site Tumblr; at its peak, the account had over 30,000 followers, though in 2015 it was deleted and revived.[3][4] In December 2012, an account for quotes from the question-and-answer site Yahoo! Answers was created; it has over 34 thousand followers as of June 2015.[5] Various other “txt” accounts were created in the following years, including those for Reddit, /r9k, PewDiePie, and creepypasta stories.[6][7][8][9]
In May of 2013, humor website CollegeHumor published a list of “txt” accounts which it considered the best.[10] In December of the same year, Internet news site the Daily Dot published an article about the @bitcoin_txt account, which uses quotes about the Bitcoin form of cryptocurrency.[11]
Example Tweets
francine: why do i have to where suit
arther: why do i have to where dress
mrs frensky: these are tolerent times
arther: okay
— Fanfiction_txt (@fanfiction_txt) June 8, 2015
Can Birds Get High???
— YahooAnswers.TXT (@YahooAnswersTXT) June 20, 2015
FIVENIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: Phone Guy is now a literal telephone with a penis. And that penis is pissing on the security guard.
— Rule34.txt (@rule34_txt) June 22, 2015
you could probably put a lot of toenails in this box
— amazon_txt (@amazon_txt) June 1, 2014
Search Interest
External References
[2]Twitter – @Fanfiction_txt
[3]Internet Archive – @TumblrTXT
[4]Twitter – @TumblrTXT
[5]Twitter – @YahooAnswersTXT
[6]Twitter – @Reddit_txt
[8]Twitter – @PewDiePie_txt
[9]Twitter – @creepypasta_txt
[10]CollegeHumor – The 5 Best Twitter .TXT Accounts
[11]The Daily Dot – Everything insane about Bitcoin in 1 glorious Twitter feed