What Would John Lennon Tweet? #wwtt

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“Imagine.” Imagine if John Lennon were still alive and on Twitter. That was the theme of this week’s contest, what would they tweet? Unlike previous contestants, I haven’t found a fake Twitter account for the late musical genius, but the site historical tweets does have one tweet for the musical legend “I said we were bigger than the WHO” (in response to Lennon’s famous statement that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus). @sageeb had a different take on Lennon’s statement, writing instead that “we are more popular than @aplusk” ~ @johnlennon

Most people thought that Lennon would turn his songs into tweets. @welfeld wrote “Imagine all the twitters, twitting in your face. Your tweets are of a dreamer, but you are not the only one.” @niron had a different take on Imagine, writing instead, “You may say I’m on twitter, but I’m not the only one, Oprah and Ashton have been there long B4 I’ve tried” @reggriffin tweeted “Imagine there’s no facebook…it’s easy if you try.” On Facebook, Jim Woods responded, “Imagine all the Tweeple living life in peace.” Ilan Peer wrote “all i am tweeting, is give peace a chance” Michael Mullins wrote “Imagine There’s no Heaven.” Alex de Carvalho wrote “Imagine There’s No Facebook”. Neil Osman wrote “Imagine there is no middle eastern August.”

When asking what Lennon would tweet, Guillaume Decugis “I can’t IMAGINE ”

Blue Nim Rod referred to another Beatles song (although this one was actually written by Paul McCartney), “Let it be!”

Ben Pashkoff says Lennon would tweet, “We are all together – kuku kashoo”

@amitkurtz thought that Lennon would tweet “…there’s no heaven” @Mottipeer wrote “All you need is love” @niron had a similar take, tweeting that “John Lennon might have said: “Imagine all the people tweeting out for PEACE, yoohoo uhoohoo”.”

Raanan Avidor wrote that “Lennon has a lot of quotes that can be twitted like:

♫ All you twit is love. ♫

♫ All we are saying is give twit a chance. ♫

♫ There’s nothing you can twit that wasn’t twot. ♫

♫ Yeah we all twit on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. ♫”

Gil Ruda “For those of you in the cheap seats I’d like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your Blackberry”

Other twitterers referenced Lennon’s untimely assassination. Frequent participant LiviuLica wrote that ‘he might of twitted – “there’s that loony that’s been stalking me, it’s time for us to have a chat”’ One user grimly mentioned both Michael Jackson’s death and Lennon’s. @welfeld, referring to Jackson’s ownership of the Beatle’s library, tweeted “Maybe now that Michael Jackson is dead, I can get my music’s rights back. Wait, I am dead too.”

@sageeb has another entry with this philosophical statement: “@god is a concept by which we measure our pain” ~@johnlennon

@Rubin is clearly not a fan of Twitter – or at least he thinks Lennon wouldn’t have been, tweeting “John Lennon would probably dismiss Twitter as useless.”

My own entry is “Twitter fields forever.”