There are a lot of very good tweets out there, but there are few that involve this level of dedication and planning.
For the last week, Spotify worker Richard Cook has been planning a Twitter Easter Egg of absolute genius proportions.
The final reveal came on Tuesday. It requires a bit of backreading, but you only need to get through a few tweets before everything becomes gloriously clear...
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We've put the rest of his tweets in reverse order to make things easier (and there's a TL;DR bit at the bottom if you're feeling lazy):
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TL;DR: The first word from each of his tweets spells out the lyrics to "All Star" by Smash Mouth.
Obviously Cook does work for Spotify, so there's a chance this was all just an orchestrated PR stunt. But hey, even if it was, it's still an undeniably inspired one.
H/T Twitter Moments.
Topics Twitter
