Contemporary Black American poetry has often been published on social media platforms rather than in conventional print publications.
[11] An example of these stories are those written by James Mark Miller (@asmallfiction),[12] Sean Hill (@veryshortstories),[13] and Arjun Basu (@arjunbasu).
In 2013, The Guardian challenged traditionally published authors such as Jeffrey Archer and Ian Rankin to write their 140-character stories, and then featured their attempts.
[9][18] In 2009, Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin published Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter.
[21] In an interview with Time, Sreedharan said it was an attempt to simplify the lengthy epic and make it accessible to the new generation—both in India and abroad.
Twitter novels (or twovels)[9] are another form of fiction that can extend over hundreds of tweets to tell a longer story.
Twitter novels can run for months, with one or more tweets daily, whereby context is usually maintained by a unique hashtag.
[25] One example of the Twitter novel is Small Places by Nick Belardes (@smallplaces), which began on April 25, 2008, with the tweet as shown on the right.
The first entry in the series was Executive Severance, which would be the first live-tweeted Twitter comic mystery (or "Twitstery"), beginning on May 6, 2009, with the tweet shown.
Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled & said, "We don't love you anymore.
Neil Gaiman coined the term "interactive twovel" for an experiment in involving his Twitter followers in collaborating with him on a novel.
[9] The result was published as an audiobook under the title Hearts, Keys and Puppetry, with the author given as Neil Gaiman & Twitterverse.