Catchword: twiller

Filed Under: English, Arts & Literature, Online, Technology, New or Nonce

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Recently, a handful of creators (present company included) have scrapped pen and paper for mobile phone and keypad, and started texting their novels—in real time, just a few characters at a time. Our medium is Twitter, a service that lets you broadcast bursts of 140 characters at a time to be read by people who subscribe to get your updates. In my case, I’ve for the last two months been using Twitter to write a real-time thriller. Hence: Twiller. (Cheap word play is what you get when you disintermediate, as they say, your agent and editor).

Article or Document Title:
“Introducing the Twiller” (URL)

Author:
Matt Richtel

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
New York Times

Date of Publication:
Aug. 29, 2008

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