The very nature of Twitter is transient; to update, to present news (as trivial as it may be) in real time, news that may seem newsworthy at that moment, but rarely lingers in one’s conscious longer than it takes to read the next tweet.

Swiss graphic designer Philipp Adrian has slowed Twitter down - to a standstill in fact. On the 9th November 2012 at exactly 14:47:36 GMT Adrian captured all 5,522 tweets posted at that very second, the world over. Once Adrian had amassed all the tweets, he began categorising them, physically printed them before presenting them in a one-off box set to be displayed in galleries as an art piece, allowing viewers to explore in depth what normally rushes by in a mere instant.

Each of the 4 books in the #oneSecond box explores different aspects of the 5,522 tweets.  My Message is... contains the actual message that has been sent in that second. My Color is... shows each users colour categorised by the timezone the tweet was sent in. My Description is... shows how each user describes themselves on their profile. And finally, My Name is... shows the image that each user chose to represent themselves.

If you think this sounds like a laborious process, last year a small team of developers were raising money to print a physical copy of the entirety of Wikipedia. It’s interesting to see such huge digital quantities reimagined in a physical context, and suggests that there's still something about a physical product that can't be replicated digitally.