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
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13. As with all art, form and content have to work together hand in hand to make good twitter essay.
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12. The 140-character limit, even if you press against it by multiple linked tweets, still imposes a discipline.
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Nice twitter essay! I am actually writing my master thesis about the twitter essay as a social media genre. and this essay about the twitter essay (how meta!) was a nice supplement to finding a path through all the theory I am currently surround by. 8)
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