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Storytelling by Twitter: three line novels
Another platform for social media storytelling is Twitter. Consider, for example, the novelsin3lines project. These are versions of Félix Fénéon’s 1906 work, which found microstories in compressed...
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More characterization by Twitter
Here’s a list of ten satirical Twitter projects, each based on a character parodying a real-world figure: President Obama, mayors Bloomberg and Emmanuel, and others. For example,
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The Tweeted Titanic
More Twitter storytelling: the Titanic’s voyage, tweet by tweet. The feed promises “day-by-day and minute-by-minute tweets as if from on board the ship itself”, and seems to be doing selections of that...
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Twittering the trenches
More Twitter history: follow the WWI tweets of one William Grudgings. In 1916 I left my job as a schoolteacher at Cobden Street school, Loughborough and joined the Leicestershire Regiment. I served...
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Twittering Jane Austen
Can we Twitter a novel? The Jane Austen fan production A Ball at Pemberley (2011) proves it’s doable. “T]ogether, tens of people from six continents would go on to write a 100,000-word novel!”, they...
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Mad Twitter story of the year
Weirdest Twitter story: a madman wrote a fanfiction epic based on Harry and the Hendersons (1987). It is very odd. “Hi, I continue the saga of Harry and the Herndersons. Also have head injure.”...
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Seattle Noir: storytelling by Twitter
Seattle Noir is another Twitter-based storytelling project. Microstorytelling, really, as each bit of story consists of a single Tweet. Said Tweets combine noir fiction (plot and/or style) with life...
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