Genres Twitterature

1 genres

1.1 aphorism
1.2 poetry
1.3 fiction
1.4 weird twitter

genres
aphorism





aaron haspel, @ahaspel

aphorisms popular because brevity inherently suited twitter. people share known classic aphorisms on twitter, seek craft , share own brief insights on every conceivable topic. boing boing has described twitter encouraging new age of aphorism , citing novel aphorisms of aaron haspel.

poetry






göran greider, @greiderdd

haikus brief poetic form suited twitter; many examples can found using hashtag #haiku. other forms of poetry can found under other hashtags or following people use twitter accounts journals or poetry. example, swedish poet , journalist göran greider tweets observations , poems using twitter handle @greiderdd (göran greider) shown in example on right.

fiction

twitterature fiction includes 140-character stories, fan fiction, retelling of literary classics , legends, twitter novels, , collaborative works.

140-character stories: refers fiction fits single tweet. example of these stories written sean hill @veryshortstories or arjun basu, twitter user @arjunbasu (shown on right). number of twitter journals dedicate form. in 2013, guardian challenged traditionally published authors such jeffrey archer , ian rankin write 140-character stories. guardian featured attempts.
fan fiction: twitter accounts have been created characters in films, tv series, , books. of these tweet accounts take events in original works starting point.
literary classics , legends: literary classics , legends retold on twitter, either characters tweeting , interacting, or retelling in tweet format, in modern language using slang. in 2009 alexander aciman , emmet rensin published twitterature: world s greatest books retold through twitter. in 2010 group of rabbis tweeted exodus, hashtag #tweettheexodus; in 2011 royal shakespeare company , english game company mudlark tweeted story of romeo , juliet.






arjun basu, @ajunbasu





nick belardes, @smallplaces





robert k. blechman, @rkbs_twitstery

the twitter novel form of fiction can extend on hundreds of tweets tell longer story. twitter novels can run months, 1 or more tweets daily. context maintained unique hashtag: searching produces list of available tweets in series. serials posted in short updates encourage reader follow , speculate on next installment. examples include small places, written nick belardes using twitter account @smallplaces. small places began on april 25, 2008 tweet shown on right. example executive severance, written robert k. blechman using twitter account @rkbs_twitstery. executive severance, book 1 of twitstery twilogy , first live-tweeted twitter comic mystery, or twitstery , began on may 6, 2009 tweet shown. golden parachute, twitstery twilogy book 2, appeared kindle ebook in 2016 , tweet, therefore am, concluding book 3, released in 2017 traditionally published authors such jennifer egan , david mitchell have attempted twitter novel. jennifer egan s black box , first published in 500 tweets in 2012, , david mitchell s right sort , first published 300 tweets sent on 1 week in 2014. author of twitter novel unknown readers. twitter account name can character in story or pseudonym. anonymity creates air of authenticity.






neil gaiman

collaborative works: neil gaiman coined term interactive twovel experiment in involving twitter followers in collaborating him on novel. conducted bbc america audio books. first tweet gaiman shown on right. then, invited readers continue story under hashtag #bbcawdio. result published audiobook under title hearts, keys , puppetry, author given neil gaiman & twitterverse. teju cole sent lines short story hafiz other twitter users , retweeted them assemble story.

weird twitter

weird twitter loose genre of internet humour dedicated publication of humorous material on twitter disorganised , hard explain.

related anti-humour , created twitter users not professional humourists, weird twitter-style jokes may presented disorganised thoughts, rather in conventional joke format or punctuated sentence structure. genre based around restriction of twitter s 140-character message length, requiring jokes quite short. genre may include repurposing of overlooked material on internet, such parodying posts made spambots or deliberately amateurish images created in paint. new york times has described genre inane , intended subtly mock site s corporate , mainstream users.