{"id":868,"date":"2008-08-31T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/08\/mystery-tweet-by-tweet\/"},"modified":"2008-08-31T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T19:40:06","slug":"mystery-tweet-by-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/31\/mystery-tweet-by-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Tweet by Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the Bits Blog at NY Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Introducing the Twiller<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0MATT RICHTEL<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

You might remember the novel in its earlier form; it had a cover, and many pages, forethought of plot, editors and agents weighing in, and, oh yes, it generally had sentences and punctuation. And, finally, some poor suckers had to take the time out of their busy days to actually read it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Who has time for all those niceties? They\u2019re so first half of 2008.<\/p>\n

Introducing the Twiller.<\/p>\n

Recently, a handful of creators (present company included) have scrapped pen and paper for mobile phone and keypad, and started texting their novels \u2014 in real time, just a few characters at a time. Our medium is\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, a service that lets you broadcast bursts of 140 characters at a time to be read by people who subscribe to get your updates.<\/p>\n

In my case, I\u2019ve for the last two months been using Twitter to write a real-time thriller. Hence: Twiller. (Cheap word play is what you get when you disintermediate, as they say, your agent and editor).<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s about a man who wakes up in the mountains of Colorado, suffering from amnesia, with a haunting feeling he is a murderer. In possession of only a cell phone that lets him Twitter, he uses the phone to tell his story of self-discovery, 140 characters at a time. Think \u201cMemento\u201d on a mobile phone, with the occasional emoticon.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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