New uses of Twitter
American journalist Dan Baum has written an account of how he got fired from his staff job at the New Yorker.
Nothing odd about that, except he chose to do it through Twitter, in a series of tweets that he posted earlier this month, between May 8 and May 12.
People are forever coming up with surprising and innovative uses of Twitter, but if I wanted to publish a 4,000-word article, I wouldn’t choose a medium that allowed only 140 characters at a time. Still, as a gimmick to promote Baum’s new book, it clearly worked – people are writing about it all over the place, including here, here and here.
And if you’d like to follow Baum on Twitter, you can find him here.
