On: The Anatomy of a Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide

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“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.