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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014

      1. Okay, let's think about the twitter essay as a form.

      8 replies 23 retweets 60 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. "Why twitter essays Jeet, why not newspaper columns, magazine articles, blog posts, monographs, etc. etc.?" A question I often get.

      3 replies 4 retweets 6 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      3. I'll start by noting that I don't just do twitter essays.I've edited and written many books, and published in many magazines & newspapers

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      4. In the last week alone I've published 3 articles adding up to 4,500 words in The New Yorker, Hazlitt, & Globe and Mail.

      3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      5. So when I do twitter essays, it is not because I have no other venue or don't know how to blog. Look up "Sans Everything."

      1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      6. The twitter essay is not just a regular essay with numbered sentences broken up into tweets. It is a form with own rules.

      4 replies 15 retweets 14 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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      7. For me, the special virtues of the twitter essay are that 1) I'm thinking in real time and 2) I'm getting real time feedback.

      7 replies 17 retweets 26 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      8. These are essays in the classical French sense of the word: essaying a topic: an attempt, a provisional thought, a notebook entry

      2 replies 9 retweets 30 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014

      9. Often when I'm doing a twitter-essay, I'll get smart comments that gets me thinking in a new direction

      1:46 PM - 4 Nov 2014
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        2. Prancis Ficabia‏ @prancisficabia 4 Nov 2014
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          @HeerJeet It also creates 2 particular ways of experiencing and enjoying the essay. Watching the process, or seeing it as a summary.

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        3. Prancis Ficabia‏ @prancisficabia 4 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet Not that I want to interrupt.

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        1. John O'Neil‏Verified account @THAToneil 4 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet Unlike most knock-knock essays, but not all.

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        2. Cinephiliac‏ @SlackerInc 3 Feb 2015
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          @bernitarebeiro @HeerJeet THIS. It's blatant peacocking, very domineering behavior that few of us can get away with. Regardless of the text+

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        1. billiecat‏ @billiecat 4 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet I see your essays as a smart way to organize a truncated form to allow more nuance, as well as engage in conversation. w/o numbers

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        1. billiecat‏ @billiecat 4 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet we would have chaos and incomprehensibility. Exhibit A: my last two tweets.

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        1. billiecat‏ @billiecat 4 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet Also, anyone who thinks a Twitter Essay is the equivalent of a New Yorker article clearly isn't a deep thinker.

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        1. Darryl E. Clarke‏ @smartssa 4 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet I like the twitter essay. It’s the reason I followed you. It’s genuinely different and on twitter that’s rare.

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        2. Shawn Micallef‏ @shawnmicallef 4 Nov 2014
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          @HeerJeet That's it exactly - I started tweeting before Stroll came out, & while I didn't # tweets, I tweeted realtime with walks.

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        3. Peter Gilgan's Island‏ @wanderu 4 Nov 2014
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          @shawnmicallef @HeerJeet One time @Sean_YYZ was live-tweeting a ride through Guelph and I got him to alter his route by replying to a tweet.

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