@Everyword: The 7-Year Twitter Project Comes to an End

This weekend, Twitter bot @everyword is set to transmit its final tweet — the supposedly last word in the English language. It is an event seven long years in the making.

Built by New York University professor Adam Parrish, the bot has tweeted a dictionary word every 30 minutes since Nov. 30, 2007. Having reached the Zs on June 1, the account is breezing through the 26th letter at an alarming rate, causing an explosion of tongue-in cheek horror among the accounts 95,000 followers.

When @everyword finishes tweeting every word, that will mark the beginning of the apocalypse, the end of the world as we know it.

— Jed Heersche (@DustyassJed) June 3, 2014 Read more...