An Epic Tweet

Greetings and salutations!

Head over to time.com and search 'epic twitter,' or check out the article "Tweeting the World's Longest Poem" on the Word in the Street board in class. More and more, authors are using Twitter as another medium for their work. Would you read literature 140 characters at a time? Is what they're doing even "literature?" (And why do you say that?)

As your introductory post, discuss: Twitter Literature. What forms/genres might work? Why? What advantages as a publishing medium or tool does something like Twitter have? What are the possible downsides? What would an author have to do well? And would you be willing to read the world's longest poem this way?