Fact or Fiction: The Rise of Twitter Fiction—Analysis

A virtual Lollapalooza of twitterfiction content is under construction with exceptional work from authors such as Adam Popescu, Sarah Farizan, and Maisey Yates — to name a few.

I (Google) researched relevant content pertaining to twitterature, Twitter fiction, hashtags and Twitter accounts. Within this rapidly expanding field, I discovered a variety of organizations that are exploring the use of Twitter fiction in various ways ranging from ESL instruction and discussion forums, to open invitation competitions and festival creation.

I also found a variety of dead/no longer in use Twitter accounts that seemingly were once part of a wider contribution for well known twitterature for Harry Potter @NotoriousHP, but is referenced in Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Tweets by A. Aciman, E. Rensin.

Keywords, hashtags, Twitter handles, references and authors: twitterature, twitter fiction, #twitterfictionfestival, #twitterfiction, @NortoriousHP, @NYerfiction, @bradmeltzer, @meganabbott, @adampopescu, Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Tweets, The Guardian, Craig Taylor and the exquisite artwork as seen in the work of Dugaldo Estrada.

I asked the following questions as part of the element selection process: Did the choice contribute to, enhance or detract from the overall Storify premise? Did a Tweet, blog post or video explain or elaborate on the central theme of the presentation? These same selection principles were also applied to choices for images and Tweets.Was the totality of the content balanced? Was there representation from a variety of sources?

This is certainly not the full range of available content of the Twitter fiction theme, but this representation does provide a brief account of this emerging art form.

The content of this Storify representation could be a starting point for a longer academic essay. Aside from the main themes already identified herein under education for students and twitter fiction festival for artists and authors, it would be of value to further explore the expanding uses for this language arts format, its potential for use in a cross-cultural exchange of fiction development (global application), and track growth and evolution in identified arenas.