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1. Writer, The Nation https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ … 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Drawn by Joe Ollmann

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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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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.

      2 replies 7 retweets 19 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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      11. In general, the conversational aspect of Twitter is one of its great strengths as a forum.

      1 reply 5 retweets 17 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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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
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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      13. As with all art, form and content have to work together hand in hand to make good twitter essay.

      5 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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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

      6 replies 44 retweets 62 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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      15. You won't get anything out of the twitter essay unless you engage with people who disagree with you.

      4 replies 7 retweets 15 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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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

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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      17. Of course there are many things a twitter essay CAN'T do. For something like @tanehisicoates's Case for Reparations, you need article

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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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.

      2 replies 10 retweets 11 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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      19. There's a quote from T.W. Adorno that would be perfect right now, but I can't find it. It's about footnotes.

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014

      20. (From memory) Adorno on footnotes: a form where fleeting, digressive thought can find fitful life not available in main text.

      2:47 PM - 4 Nov 2014
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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          21. What Adorno said about footnotes is true of tweets as well: it's a form for thoughts that might not live elsewhere.

          1 reply 19 retweets 34 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2014
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          22. New forms are sometimes worth exploring for their own sake: for the pleasure of learning & mastering their rules & experimenting.

          3 replies 4 retweets 15 likes
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        1. Mark Gold‏ @mj_gold 4 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet not sure the age of your children, but http://www.amazon.ca/Hamish-And-The-Cheese-Pirates/dp/0670065021 … is laugh out loud fun, mainly due to its footnotes.

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