How tweet it is!

Via the Guardian Hay Festival:

"The host of literary heavyweights to descend on the Guardian Hay festival may be more used to reviewing substantial literary works, but messages of 140 characters or fewer are set to share the festival stage this year in the search to find the most beautiful tweet ever written.

The search for the winning tweet begins tomorrow and ends a week on Friday, and the tweets will be judged by the unofficial king of Twitter, actor and writer Stephen Fry...

Fry, who has over one and a half million followers and who has tweeted on subjects ranging from aggravating theatre-goers to ruminations on early starts – 'Whoever invented the breakfast meeting should be roundly spanked' – may have his work cut out. The site achieved a daily average high of 50m tweets in February..."

Pictured: Stephen Fry tweeting.