Tag Archives: haiku

Twitter and The Remediation of Short Texts

Desiree de Jong | 11 October 2009, 5:18 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Aphorisms, Haiku’s, SMS, Twitter

“What are you doing?” This basic question of Twitter can easily be answered in the limited 140 characters a ‘tweet offers. They key characteristic of the famous microblogging site, it’s short message length, actually isn’t really new. The history of the use of short texts goes way back; an early example of it can

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Twitter and Simple Forms of Literary Expression

Maria Perevalova | 13 October 2008, 12:22 pm | tags: , , , ,

Twitter is the most popular platform for microblogging, where short text updates(up to 140 words) are posted and distributed by means of instant messaging, sms, web interface. Microblogging is next in chain of technological tools for communication that follows blogging, social networking and other cyber social “places”.