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Twitterature (a portmanteau of Twitter and literature) is literary use of the microblogging service of Twitter. It includes various genres, including aphorisms, poetry and fiction that even written with multiple people thorough collaboration, within the 140-character maximum imposed by the medium. Some work is self-contained; others, such as Twitter novels, extend over multiple " tweets". The character restriction provides a creative challenge.They can last for months, with one or more tweets daily. Context is usually maintained by a unique hashtag: searching by this produces a list of all available tweets in the series. However, it is best to tweet a serial in a form suited to Twitter, in short updates that will stand out in the stream of tweets and encourage the reader to follow and to speculate on the next installment. Examples include Jennifer Egan's "Black Box", first published in about 500 tweets in 2012, and David Mitchell's "The Right Sort", first published as almost 300 tweets sent over one week in 2014.
The author of a Twitter series is often unknown to the readers. The Twitter account name can be a character in the story or a pseudonym. This anonymity creates an air of authenticity.In a Twitter serialized relay, participants follow each other like runners taking the baton in a relay race. Some have a theme or objective, with each participant contributing one or more tweets; others are stories that each person continues in turn. Again, hashtags unify the contributions. One example of a Twitter relay was launched by the British newspaper The Guardian in fall 2012: famous authors each contributed a micro-narrative with the hashtag #140novel.