aer studio - Human Computer Symmetry

Twitter File Sharing is the last project from Free Art and Technology Lab by Greg Leuch and Theo Watson.

According to the authors:

Governments and private organizations continue to lock down legitimate file sharing through raids, law suits, and “consumer protection” laws & treaties, mainly targeting those who pirate movies, music, and software through BitTorrent and other underground distribution methods. But anyone that knows just a little bit about technology knows file sharing can be done through any medium. This began with Usenet groups, where the binary data was converted to text characters and reprocessed for download. This began one of the first methods of photo sharing. Facsimile machines follow a similar method of dissemination of binary data. And even ham radio used teletype to transmit photos across long distances by converting photos to ASCII before transmission.
Today, we have advanced systems built for sharing files: websites, FTP, BitTorrent, email, CD/DVDs, hard drives. We also have many systems today that mirror prior technology of Usenet newsgroups, paging devices, IRC chat rooms, and IM status messages, of which the largest modern equivalent today is Twitter.

If Twitter is today’s Usenet and Usenet was used for file sharing years ago, why can’t Twitter be utilized today for file sharing?

To start sharing your files via Twitter you must download the code and running it in your server.