The Twitter Read-a-thon

[intertext]

Have you heard about "One Book, One Twitter"? If you follow Neil Gaiman, you will have, because his book, American Gods is the chosen book. The idea is to get all of Twitter reading one book and presumably tweeting about it. I'm skeptical, but I'm at least going to follow @1B1T2010 out of academic/professional interest and curiosity. I want to see if the tweets are universally banal, or if it's all RT's of @neilhimself, or what. Or maybe there'll be this amazing conversation, and it will be something that I can point to and say "see? look how cool this is"

I don't know if I can read American Gods, though I might try, again just to be part of the project. I bounced off it badly the first time I tried it, but do at least still have my copy.

Comments

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Or maybe there'll be this amazing conversation, and it will be something that I can point to and say "see? look how cool this is"

I'd be curious to see if Twitter can sustain something like this. My adventures in Twitter have not been successful. It seems to require one to be constantly engaged with it, and to be friends with a huge number of quasi-strangers in order to follow a conversation, and I really don't have the time!

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I found it quite fun at first, but the novelty soon wore off and, as you say, it doesn't really work unless you engage with it through the day. I already spend too much time on the computer; I don't need another time sink.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I find it can be interesting to follow hashtags, where the conversation is focussed on one topic. But I know what you mean about needing to pay attention to it. I do like it for getting quick updates to links of interest and for news.