twitfic

plural twitfics

1. InternetcountableuncountableliteratureFiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; twiction.

   He's had twitfic published in @tweetthemeat, @thaumatrope, and @outshine, among others. Join his twitfic community at twitfic.com. F.I. Goldhaber F.i. Goldhaber has had short stories, novels, poems, features, essays,[…]

   2010 October 15, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter, Folded Word, →ISBN, page 145

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   Steve indulges on occasion with a bit of 140character long fiction but he admits, “I start each of mine with the word 'TWITFIC!' to tell people what I'm doing, so I really get 131.” Some of his TwitFic went like this: “I'm from the[…]

   2009 June 29, Tee Morris, All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter, Que Publishing, →ISBN

   Meanwhile, The Guardian ran Twitfics from twenty-one heavyweights including Jeffrey Archer, Geoff Dyer, and Ian Rankin. “Blaise Pascal didn't tweet and neither did Mark Twain,” began the story by the UK MIllennium Poet and Iowa Workshop[…]

   2013 November 14, David Comfort, An Insider's Guide to Publishing, Penguin, →ISBN

   The first is 'twitfic', mentioned by several TV 2.0 participants. As one might imagine, it is a very abbreviated work of fiction spread over a number of tweets. Anne's response pointed to the limitations of Twitter for such a practice:[…]

   2017 March 30, Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, Thomas Poell, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, SAGE, →ISBN

   Legend has it that Hemingway won a barbet by composing the first Twitfic on an Algonquin bar napkin: “Classified: Baby Goods. For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” The king of brevity already knew what the Memory & Cognition Journal[…]

   2013 November 14, David Comfort, An Insider's Guide to Publishing, Penguin, →ISBN

   TwitFic. Because network access on Windows Phone must be performed asynchronously, it takes quite a bit of code to construct the RESTful Web service request properly. Most of the code, however, is repetitive and thus all of the major[…]

   2012 June 10, Henry Lee, Eugene Chuvyrov, Beginning Windows Phone App Development, Apress, →ISBN, page 393

   Synonyms: twiction