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Originally Posted by stonetools
What next.? Can you imagine a movie or novel in which James Bond will tweet his reports to Q?
Or is such a concept just too forward looking for the Internet savvy techies of MR? 
Anyway, here is a major novelist using the tools of the Internet to not only reach out to fans, but to create maybe a new literary form-Twitter fiction.
So far the response seems to be "We don't need no new stuff, young whippersnapper. And get off my lawn." |
It's not the use of new tech that's the problem, for example, when authors started to show snippets of their books in blog posts, that was great. It's the use of new tech in a way that's just, clunky.
Twitter is for checking up on what other people are doing and for what is going on in the world at that moment in time (i.e trending). It doesn't feel to me that it's a suitable mechanism for distributing a book, even a short story at that. As a one off stunt for PR, sure. but that doesn't make it any less of a stunt.
Now, had the author decided to tweet once or twice a day as their "character" and let the story unfold over weeks as part of your natural twitter feed, I might even follow them. Maybe that's an idea one of the MR authors could take advantage of and gain some free press over
PS as for tweeting reports to Q, that could work, as long as they're in a kind of code that just falls in with the background noise of all the other tweets (Managed to burn my raspberry pi today) and of course, hopefully Mr Bond is smart enough to not tweet under @JamesBond007
(license to tweet)