1. Okay, let's think about the twitter essay as a form.
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2. "Why twitter essays Jeet, why not newspaper columns, magazine articles, blog posts, monographs, etc. etc.?" A question I often get.
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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
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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.
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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."
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6. The twitter essay is not just a regular essay with numbered sentences broken up into tweets. It is a form with own rules.
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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.
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8. These are essays in the classical French sense of the word: essaying a topic: an attempt, a provisional thought, a notebook entry
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9. Often when I'm doing a twitter-essay, I'll get smart comments that gets me thinking in a new direction
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10. A twitter essay is different than a op-ed where you just pontificate; readers are responding right away & if you are smart you listen.
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11. In general, the conversational aspect of Twitter is one of its great strengths as a forum.
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12. Twitter is social medium that lets you have a conversation with
@tanehisicoates -- how fucking great is that?2 replies 8 retweets 45 likes - Show replies
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