Starting on the 22nd of December we recreated the movie ‘Home Alone’ using 22 different twitter profiles collected into a single twitter list. The @HATProject was an experiment, a test to see if transplanting the full narrative of a film on to a social network would work and to see how people would respond. The video below (not made by us, but by this chap, explains it better than we could ourselves)

There was no money in it obviously, but we thought it’d be an interesting use of twitter, entertaining for the people that followed it and a fun project for Nation and it was. Several people that followed the ‘tweet-movie’ as it played out asked for a blog post explaining how we accomplished it. So here goes nothing…

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