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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      2. Re-inventing the essay as numbered tweets seems like a mal-adaption to the form, or a misapplication of the media.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      3. Okay, there seem to be a lot of fans of the twitter-essay form, which is heartening.

      4 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      4. One advantage of the twitter-essay is that it forces each discrete unit to be a statement of argument, making writing more forceful.

      3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      5. Larger question I face (& we all face) is whether to keep embracing new forms or try and be counter-cultural, working in older forms

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      6. Blogging already feels like an archaic form, like the epistolary novel.

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      7. Another good point from @billmon1: "Writing is hard work; talking is fun & easy (at least for me). So Twitter wins out."

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      8. As per @billmon1 tweeting does feel like talking (even though we are in fact writing). A big part of its appeal.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      9. As McLuhan & Ong has taught us, orality is natural. We are hard-wired (most of us) to talk as toddlers. Writing is much more artificial

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      10. So tweeting is a form of writing that actually feels like talking, which opens us discussion for people who are not writers by habit.

      2 replies 4 retweets 6 likes
    10. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 9 Apr 2014
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      @HeerJeet What you can do is what I started doing. Bag the numbers and just immediately Storify your series once it's done.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic

      @UOJim I'm wavering on storify. I sort of want to develop some of these things into actual essays.

      4:40 PM - 9 Apr 2014
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        1. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 9 Apr 2014
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          @HeerJeet Pro tip: You can still do that. :)

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        2. MSVH‏ @matthunte 9 Apr 2014
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          @HeerJeet @UOJim Storify would help collate your notes. To use a recent example, I'd love to see the stuff on Updike expanded.

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        3. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 9 Apr 2014
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          @matthunte @HeerJeet Ooh, yeah. Storify lets you interleave new text w/ the original tweets, so it actually can function as an outliner.

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