Yohann Koshy on Dril Official ‘Mr Ten Years’ Anniversary Collection

Yoshan Koshy's piece on a twisty, topical collection of tweets was highly commended in this year's Observer/Anthony Burgess prize

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Yohann Koshy, 26, is a journalist and critic whose writing has been published in Vice, the Baffler, Financial Times and elsewhere. He lives in Oxford where he is co-editor of New Internationalist magazine

On 15 September 2008, the same day that Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, an anonymous account on Twitter published its first tweet: a monosyllabic "No." A childish negation - of what? of whom? - this "No" set the tone for what would become a defining satirical voice over the course of a decade. Wint, who goes by the handle @dril, now has 1.23 million followers and an unrivalled reputation.

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