How Does Your Twitter Output Stack Up To Proust?

An oddball new app harnesses the Twitter API to track how many characters a user has tweeted since they started using the micro-blogging service. It might not be the most indispensable app in the marketplace but it’s not mindless. The app also offers context, comparing the character count to those of literary masterworks by the likes of Shakespeare, Orwell and Tolstoy.

Hungarian developer Ákos Nikházy created Character Counter on a lark, and released it to see what would happen and where people would end up ranking on verbosity alongside a range of literary works of various lengths.