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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14. Twitter has made me a better writer: more forceful, more clear, less inclined to hedge or hide behind euphemisms. It can do same for you
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15. You won't get anything out of the twitter essay unless you engage with people who disagree with you.
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16. Just earlier today I had a great twitter conversation with @NussbaumAbigail, who wrote twitter essay in response to my t-e on Israel
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17. Of course there are many things a twitter essay CAN'T do. For something like
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18. What the twitter essay does allow is not the long explanatory article but the quick flashes of thought, sudden insights worth sharing.
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