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I don't do twitter, but I have wondered what it would be to write or read a longer work composed within the limits of 140 character chunks - parceled out over t

I don't do twitter, but I have wondered what it would be to write or read a longer work composed within the limits of 140 character chunks - parceled out over time. It is not so much the size limitation on tweets as it is the disconnect between them that causes the dissolution of bigger ideas.

md224 13y ago
It's not exactly 140 character chunks spread out over time, but perhaps this comes close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Mistress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Mistress
zrail 13y ago
Check out http://twitter-fiction-reader.bugsplat.info http://twitter-fiction-reader.bugsplat.info. I've collected a few twitter-based fiction stories and arranged them in chronological order for easier reading. DadBoner in particular mostly reads like short paragraphs in daily diary entries.
mreid 13y ago
Jennifer Egan did a New Yorker story called "Black Box"[1] that was intentionally composed as sub-140 character chunks. It was released on Twitter tweet-by-tweet and collected in a New Yorker science fiction special last year. She is an impressive and experimental writer (check out her "Visit from the Goon Squad") who does a great job with this form. The thought-sized chunks give the story a lot of space and cleverly invites the reader to imagine a lot of context. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Box_(Jennifer_Egan_story) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Box_(Jennifer_Egan_story)
bdarnell 13y ago
Jennifer Egan's short story Black Box was written in 140-character chunks and published via both the New Yorker's twitter account and the print magazine. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/coming-soon-jennifer-egan-black-box.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/coming-s...
waterlesscloud 13y ago
Trasnmedia writer Jay Bushman did a story via tweets called "The Good Captain", a sci fi take on a Melville story. He rebroadcast it last year, but the original was in 2007 when Twitter was new and no one knew what it was going to be good for. So he experimented. I followed it at the time and had the tweets sent to my phone as they came in. It was an interesting way to experience a story. Because it was spread out over time, I found myself keeping the context in my head as a low level background process. There's probably a very interesting way or two to use that phenomenon. https://twitter.com/goodcaptain https://twitter.com/goodcaptain
desas 13y ago
@samuelpepys is steadily posting the diary of Samuel Pepys - a famous diarist from the 17th century.

md224 13y ago

It's not exactly 140 character chunks spread out over time, but perhaps this comes close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Mistress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Mistress

zrail 13y ago

Check out http://twitter-fiction-reader.bugsplat.info http://twitter-fiction-reader.bugsplat.info. I've collected a few twitter-based fiction stories and arranged them in chronological order for easier reading. DadBoner in particular mostly reads like short paragraphs in daily diary entries.

mreid 13y ago

Jennifer Egan did a New Yorker story called "Black Box"[1] that was intentionally composed as sub-140 character chunks. It was released on Twitter tweet-by-tweet and collected in a New Yorker science fiction special last year. She is an impressive and experimental writer (check out her "Visit from the Goon Squad") who does a great job with this form. The thought-sized chunks give the story a lot of space and cleverly invites the reader to imagine a lot of context. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Box_(Jennifer_Egan_story) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Box_(Jennifer_Egan_story)

bdarnell 13y ago

Jennifer Egan's short story Black Box was written in 140-character chunks and published via both the New Yorker's twitter account and the print magazine. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/coming-soon-jennifer-egan-black-box.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/coming-s...

waterlesscloud 13y ago

Trasnmedia writer Jay Bushman did a story via tweets called "The Good Captain", a sci fi take on a Melville story. He rebroadcast it last year, but the original was in 2007 when Twitter was new and no one knew what it was going to be good for. So he experimented. I followed it at the time and had the tweets sent to my phone as they came in. It was an interesting way to experience a story. Because it was spread out over time, I found myself keeping the context in my head as a low level background process. There's probably a very interesting way or two to use that phenomenon. https://twitter.com/goodcaptain https://twitter.com/goodcaptain

desas 13y ago

@samuelpepys is steadily posting the diary of Samuel Pepys - a famous diarist from the 17th century.