The Twerp Project was created by Josh Smith during the fall of 2009. Quite possibly the first of it's kind on YouTube, Twerp both satirizes the popular social site, Twitter as well as popular culture at large. Anyone who's spent much time around Twitter knows that not all "tweets" (posts limited to 140 characters) are particularly scholarly or insightful. In the most dire of situations they can even prove overly revealing and personal, or on the opposite end of the spectrum, completely redundant or unnecessary.
The Twerp project aims to capitalize on these conventions and in it's 10-15 second videos viewers are treated to a variety of seemingly absurd "tweets", only spoken out loud rather than typed, essentially a "live-tweet" as Josh initially dubbed it. This approach helps to emphasize just how ridiculous some of the things people tweet around truly are, we often find there to be a big distinction of what we would say, and what we would say online. I think a lot of us subscribe to the "reserved in public, revealing online" social habit and it's nice to see that someone has picked up on this trend and given it some exposure.
Ideally the Twerp project will influence others to post video responses, or re-twerps as they might be termed.
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