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Help write a BusinessWeek article with your tweets

Here’s an interesting use of Twitter: Stephen Baker (@stevebaker) at BusinessWeek is asking readers to help him write an article about Twitter one tweet at a time. He explains: “The idea of writing in this format is to turn Twitter into something of an editorial wiki. I’ll write a 140-letter chunk and wait an hour. Meanwhile, people can correct my chunks or write what they think should be the next one. Maybe some of those chunks will supplant my own. Eventually, I’m hoping, we’ll publish the whole thing as a core story that spouts all sorts of Twittery arms and legs—each one a sign of a direction it could have taken. In fact, maybe some of those legs can turn into other, parallel stories.” Contributors are tagging their tweets with #bwstory for easy aggregation. Read the story.

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Uses 

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  1. Warren Whitlock on May 12th, 2008

    I was just sent a link to this story and discovered TwitterGossip.com

    Subscribed and look forward to reading more.

    Over the past month, @CoachDeb and I have been using Twitter to write a book on Twitter (”Twitter Handbook”). I can attest to the “Twittery arms and legs” as the project goes where the tweets take us, regardless of our ideas when we started.

    I’ve seen blog posts, videos and articles using tweets as content. Lots of “gee whiz.. look what we can do” stuff. Other have tried to write short stories or novels in a series of 140 characters. Again more novelty than novel.

    Once we get comfortable with the technology, I think a “book wrote on Twitter” will sound a silly as a “book wrote on the phone.” Not a reason to read it.

    We’ve found that Twitter speeds up the flow of information and ideas in other media. Case in point… I read about this blog in a tweet, but came here to interact more.

  2. Jerry Brito on May 13th, 2008

    Thanks for coming, Warren. I hope this forum can become a place to discuss Twitter and what it means. I’ll definitely check out your book project. Did you see that a couple weeks ago Rob Pegoraro from the Washington Post published an article written in 140 character paragraphs? You can check it out here.

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