This Story Is Being Published One Tweet At A Time
We all know that attention spans are shrinking and traditional book sales are declining, but are we really at the point where people want to read a book posted one tweet at a time?
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan is counting on it – and plans to begin publishing her newest novel, Black Box, on Twitter this week.
The story was written for Twitter and fits neatly into the 140 character limit per tweet.
“This is not a new idea, of course, but it’s a rich one — because of the intimacy of reaching people through their phones, and because of the odd poetry that can happen in 140 characters,” she said in a New Yorker post about the experiment.
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