One of the best participatory art projects on Twitter so far must be Secret Tweet. Visitors to Secret Tweet are able to post secrets anonymously to Twitter. A brilliantly simple idea that spins off PostSecret whose Twitter project is @tweetpostsecret. There's also @webofsecrets, a secrets project spun off the television series Big Love. All infinitely more sophisticated than Keith Tyson's pathetic attempt at net art.
Like PostSecret, SecretTweet leverages off the freedom anonymity provides, enabling individuals to express some of the things they would never say out loud. In this case, I think anonymity promotes more honesty rather than less. Yet there are bloggers (art bloggers even can you believe) who think that people expressing themselves anonymously can never be taken seriously, because virtual identities that are not linked to 'real' offline ones are not 'real' or 'authentic'. In fact, I think PostSecret and SecretTweet are so successful because they get past the censorship that plays such a crucial role in our supposedly 'authentic' face to face encounters in everyday life.
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