Twiction

Twiction is a term used to describe a work of fiction published through the website Twitter in the form of 140-character tweets. Twiction can be either individual short stories, or long-form novels released as multiple tweets. Single-tweet short stories are also referred to as "twisters".
The first known use of the term "twiction" was on October 23, 2008, on a Twitter stream that posted short stories.
The first known case of someone posting a long form crime novel via Twitter is a story called "Fuel Dump", an ongoing project. Also in this genre is "No Good End" , which started June 19, 2009 and continues as of this writing.
Nick Belardes began the first original literary novel on Twitter on April 25, 2008.
Soon after in May of 2008, Jim McCormick started to post the novel "Cowboy" written by his late wife Alice. It was completed on October 26, 2008 and 3501 tweets and is the first completed novel.
Other authors believe that twitter is best suited to short stories, particularly those told in real time. Many poets tweet works under 140 characters.
Other forms of twiction include the "Twiller", a thriller posted in Tweets, coined by New York Times journalist Matt Richtel. . Meanwhile, Twitterature (a portmanteau of "Twitter" and "literature") combines the world's greatest books in twenty tweets or fewer.
Many authors are attempting to garner fame through writing twitter stories or tweeting pre-existing novels. In Japan, several twiction authors have become well-known.

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