About Book of Bangers
Book of Bangers is a quiet reading room for some of the best writing from TPOT — This Part of Twitter — a loose network of accounts that have been thinking out loud together for over a decade. It is an anthology, not a feed. Browse it the way you would a printed collection: leaf through until something catches you, sit with it.
Where the data comes from
Every tweet here is drawn from the Community Archive — an open, public-domain archive of TPOT and adjacent accounts initiated by @exgenesis. The snapshot used for this site was taken in May 2026 and covers tweets from the 340 accounts who had uploaded to the archive. From those, the site carries the top 5,000 tweets by each of the three metrics below.
The three metrics
Likes, retweets and quote tweets each surface a different kind of tweet — roughly: enjoyment, endorsement, and conversation. Importantly, the quote counts are NOT Twitter's global quote count — it counts only quote tweets written by other archive accounts. So it surfaces different kinds of tweets to the likes and retweets lists. More on the three metrics →
Tags
Every tweet carries up to four tags, drawn from a fixed set of 53 themes. The taxonomy was distilled from a hand-labelled seed set of 150 tweets; Claude then tagged the full anthology — reading each tweet with its reply and quote context, and the attached images where text alone wasn't enough — and the most visible tweets under each tag were audited afterwards. Treat tags as a browsing aid, not a verdict.
Caveats
- Quote tweet counts are not Twitter's global quote count: it counts only quote tweets written by other archive accounts.
- Self-quotes are excluded from quote tweet counts.
- Only tweets the 340 accounts wrote themselves are included here.
- Counts are a snapshot from May 2026, not live.
Acknowledgements
Built by Sam. Data from the Community Archive — thanks to Xiq for building the archive, and for conversation.