Last week's TwitterFiction Festival saw best-selling and unknown authors Tweeting creatively side by side. Andrew Fitzgerald, Media Partnerships, Twitter, was excited by this "intersection of art and technology".
At first glance, Twitter may not seem like the first place you'd go for fiction. Tweets are only 140 characters! Many authors themselves have become well-known for using the platform as a way to communicate directly with their readers - writers like Paulo Cohelo (@paulocoelho), Margaret Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) or Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) are some of the best known. But for all the authors using the platform as a way to communicate with readers, for the last few years many authors have also been using Twitter as a platform to experiment with new and innovative ways of telling stories.