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Authors using Twitter to share stories.
David Mitchell published The Right Sort on Twitter, a 280-tweet tale of a boy stuck in a Valium nightmare. He also uses Vine videos as ads for his books.
Teju Cole experiments with storytelling—and readers—in his poetic short story Hafiz. Through various feeds by various followers, who turned out to be the author all along, the story of a lonely man in crisis unfolds.
Terry Bain captures the stream of consciousness of a dog with @YouAreADog, a canine’s philosophical reflection on life.
Read poetic one-Tweet stories with a whiff of Haiku on @cheepastory
Follow @VeryShortStory to participate in the fiction of @sean_hill. Readers send him nouns and he uses his favorites to inspire a story. He also published a book of Twitter feeds called Very Short Stories: 300 Bite-Size Works of Fiction.
Official handle for the annual #TwitterFiction Festival. Now tweeting prompts and cool literary things happening on Twitter.
Watch, don’t read. Had enough prose? The Tribeca Film Festival launched the #6SECFILMS competition in 2013 to honor the creativity and craft of storytelling with Vine.
San Francisco-based artist Ian Padgham’s ingenious vine films show just how much can be accomplished in a few blinks of the eye.
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