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Robert Drake — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:00:04 +0000

I’ve been using Twitter quite a bit. It’s a rather stupid novelty sort of thing, but oddly addictive. I log in every once in a while and see what everyone up to…140 characters at a time.

I’m not sure how you would go about restoring your twitter, but if the service ever lost the data you can back your twitter up with Tweetake. It’s a neat little service that pumps out a CSV of all your twitter data…friends,posts, followers, even your profile image url.

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Robert Drake — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:14:05 +0000

I’m trying out two wordpress plugins.

Twitter Widget

and

Wp to Twitter

Twitter Widget gives me that nice little Twitter box on the side. It should update whenever I make a new tweet, which is actually fairly often. I usually hit up a few times every day, usually with a writing update of some kind.

Wp to Twitter will update my twitter whenever I have a wordpress post. The hope is to integrate twitter with facebook, one giant happy social networking family.

Twitter

Robert Drake — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Recently I’ve taken to exploring micro-fiction, defined by me, as complete stories less than 1000 words. I was initially skeptical about either writing or reading anything of that length. Writing fiction that short has certainly been very difficult. You really have to narrow down your focus on exactly what you want to say, exactly what character you want to portrait, and exactly what story you want to tell.

Entirely separate, I created a twitter account. Twitter is a social news and messaging sites. You can update it (create twits) over email or text message. People who subscribe to your twitter get these messages instantly. It’s been used in the past for on-the-spot reporting, especially of tech conferences and political events.

It wasn’t long before I considering combining this ‘new’ type of fiction with this new technology.

However, the average twitter message is less than twenty words. Even with a succession of twits, fiction would be limited to maybe 100 words. I initially wrote off twitter as a new and novel means of delivering stories, but the idea remains intriguing. It would certainly be a good way of enticing readers with a first paragraph or summary, but I feel there may still be a use for it as the means of delivering complete stories, it just remains to be seen what enterprising author can manage to write entertaining vignettes of that length.

I currently have a twitter name, but no stories to release. I’m trying to drum up some discussion of the idea though. I may write something soon. I’ll make sure to post the relevant information whenever that project (one of ever so many) comes to fruition. In the mean time, what are everyone’s thoughts on this?

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