Jan 22, 2012
Anne Trubek on how Twitter works as a new literary form (Associative, not narrative. Helps resist the curse of paragraphism.):
Twitter may have some odd analogy to a compositor’s stick. Compositors would select type and put letters in their stick, upside down and backwards, before laying them on a galley. The average length of the type in a stick before laying down (or “publishing”) is not too far from 140 characters.
