Twitter: Short-Form Storytelling

I am historically slow on the social media uptake. I resisted Facebook for years – wouldn’t create an account until finally admitting I needed  away to keep in touch with my friends after college when I am atrocious at keeping in touch. Twitter? Could not wrap my brain around it. Until I started using it.

Now I have people recommending Pinterest, which makes absolutely no sense to me. Probably at least in part because I don’t want to understand it. The two social media accounts I have are more than I can keep up with.

My favorite thing lately is seeing Twitter used as short form storytelling.

Really, that’s what most of us are doing in 140 characters, whether we realize it or not: telling a story. Sometimes that story is about breakfast, sometimes about a terrible or wonderful thing that happened.

And sometimes the stories won’t be confined to the character limit, and that’s ok because you can string them all together. But even just as a writing exercise, tweets are an excellent tool.

Then there are the accounts that exist solely to tell stories.

@MicroSFF is the one I’ve followed the longest, and I love the stories that come across my feed.

We found the chosen, prophesied one. Brave, kind, just; perfect. Almost.

“I accept,” she said.

“Good. Only, can you dress as a boy?”

“No.”

— Micro SF/F Fiction (@MicroSFF) June 21, 2016

Then there are the parody accounts that get it brilliantly right. Like @DystopianYA:

I know I shouldn’t sacrifice everything I’ve ever known for a boy I just met… But his eyes are so green!

— Dystopian YA Novel (@DystopianYA) June 2, 2016

Then there’s my current favorite – that may not have intended to tell stories, but does so brilliantly – @FakeThemePark.

Do you like singing along to “Let It Go”? You’ll love Princess Rainbow’s new song, “Trenchant Sagacity Enervates the Anomie of Aesthetics”!

— Fake Theme Park (@FakeThemePark) June 21, 2016

Do you have any favorite accounts like these? Please share in the comments so we can check them out!

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