If you’ve spent a lot of time on Twitter this past weekend, you might have noticed the hashtag #twitterfiction. That’s because of something called the Twitter Fiction Festival, a five day “virtual event” that, in the words of the company’s Andrew Fitzgerald, promoted Twitter as “a frontier for creative experimentation,” with writers from five continents writing
everything from real-time murder mysteries to 140 character poetry —
with Tweet epitaphs and remixed Shakespeare in there, along the way —
across the course of the weekend. While the festival made for some great
reading — Elliott Holt’s effort, in particular
was both enjoyable and something that could only really be done on
Twitter, allowing readers to unpack (and try to solve) a mystery from
the various pieces offered up by three different participants in their
tweets — the idea of using Twitter as a new way of telling stories has
been around almost as long as Twitter itself.
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