The Anatomy of a Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide

[robg]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/the-anatomy-of-a-tweet-twitter-gets-a-style-guide/?hp

[billturner]

The fact that a "Twitter for Dummies" book is actually being written (or already written) brings me great sadness. Is it really that hard?

[jwesley → billturner]

The publishing of these books has nothing to do with a need for information about Twitter. It's a ploy to make money off all mainstream people who hear about "that Twitter thingy" in the media.

[unalone]

“This is a new genre of writing,” said Mr. Sagolla. “A new form of literature, in some ways.”

Fortunately, literature has never been defined by the people who would claim anything to be a new form of literature.

Perhaps I'm biased, since I still see Twitter as a silly tool and wonder why individuals would find it at all interesting.

[marksutherland]

http://www.textism.com/favrd : Read Favrd for a few days and you should get the hang of it. If you need a book, you're doing it wrong.

[raghus]

I find it strangely fascinating that someone wrote a book about how to write 140 characters.