Did We Just Witness The First Twitter Commercial?

A smart car company in Argentina claims to have created the very first Twitter-based commercial.

Using ASCII characters and Twitter’s own 140-character restriction, Smart Argentina (@SmartArg) has produced a fun and quirky “commercial” purely in tweet form.

You can watch this commercial yourself by visiting @SmartArg and keying through their tweets using the “J” button to go forward and the “K” button to go backwards. Or, take a look at the video of the commercial embedded below:

The commercial is sort of a digital flip-book, with each tweet recreating a “page” from the book.

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