Category: Twitterature

Hashtagstories – Stories Written as a Sequence of Twitter Hashtags

It’s almost a year since I started hashtagstories – microstories written with current Twitter hashtags. Sorry? Stories written with what? A year ago this was weird even to me. But it was just so inspiring to combine the world of hashtags into a piece of a literary fiction that I gave it a try. I [...]

Looking for a partner to co-create avatar stories

Today @wembley shared a great link. When you go to a Twitter profile of @420watch, you’ll see in a sidebar an awesome visual art made from animated avatars. The idea is brilliant, as well as execution. One of those ideas answering a question “what else can we do with the old good Twitter”. One of [...]

Best of #hashtagstory 2009

2009 is over. In a couple of days all traces of our last year’s activity will disappear from Twitter search results. Everybody wants to shorten a year to a couple of sentences. Same with me. And I’ll naturally do it using #hashtagstory. As I described in a kick-off post, hashtagstories were intended to bring fiction [...]

A literary Project on Twitter – #hashtagstory

Here it is – a Twitter literary project called #hashtagstory. A couple of days ago I decided to stop #twitnovel. The last one I wrote is here. I realized, that as a non-English writer I would be just a 7th-or-sth-level imitator of the best Twitter writers. So I started to look for a good alternative. [...]