Comments on: Rick Moody Comments on Twitter Story’s Success & Backlash

By: Electric Lit @ Symphony Space » The Outlet

Electric Lit @ Symphony Space » The Outlet — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:38:40 +0000

[...] Moody told EL that he wanted to write a story using Twitter. EL said Great! and the “sensation/fiasco” of “Some Contemporary Characters” was [...]

By: Devante

Devante — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:52:07 +0000

Thanks for this blog. I like what I read. I wish more blogs were like this. Thank you.

By: Thomas Riggs & Company Blog Missoula Montana independent book publishing virtual office publishers trends new media emerging technologies software

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:04:02 +0000

[...] On November 30 Electric Literature (about which I posted earlier in the month) launched a bold experiment with author Rick Moody, using Twitter to publish his latest short story in “microserial” fashion. It was Moody’s idea to write a story expressly for Twitter, and the task of writing a narrative that could be transmitted 140 characters at a time turned out to be quite challenging. “I became obsessed with the idea of creating for that character clock,” he told The Brooklyn Ink. [...]

By: Ben White

Ben White — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:56:37 +0000

I think Andy’s 100% right about the negativity being mostly a result of the echo chamber effect. The multiple accounts may have been annoying, but it wasn’t important enough to be a fiasco.

People followed this story—it wasn’t the first of its kind, but it was probably the most successful. Hard to argue with that.

By: emma

emma — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:52:43 +0000

I see Chuck Palahniuk only follows 19 people. I know it’s mostly about how many follow you, 19 just seems too tiny to me to even be considered someone who “participates” in Twitter at all. Seems to reveal a self-absorption, but also not even being too interested in the overall Twitterverse or how others use it. He must only be on it for purposes of his own broadcasting, not reading what others have to say. Though i just clicked, and it looks like he’s got a couple authors he follows including Douglas Coupland so that’s interesting. Great interview from Rick Moody.

By: argylekneesocks

argylekneesocks — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:23:28 +0000

nice piece. i’m intrigued by this whole “character clock” thing– wondering what it would mean in another context, i.e. what’s another example of a character clock to moody? is it about time/space limitations or atemporal storytelling or what?

it probably reveals my sporadic use of twitter, but i generally (and definitely in this case) prefer to click on a single person’s profile and read a set of their tweets at once, rather than reading the interspersed feed. i guess that puts me in the minority? maybe b/c while facebook is only friends, the twitter accounts i follow fall into several distinct categories (friends, individual public figures, news sources, groups).

By: Hank M..

Hank M.. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:43:18 +0000

here’s the melvile story link
http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=10988

its true they seem to hate Moody its kind of strange. i Didnt mind all the retweeting, myself