Amanda Clay Powers » BBC http://www.amandaclaypowers.com Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:41:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Neil Gaiman kicks off a Twitter-based short story http://www.amandaclaypowers.com/2009/10/12/neil-gaiman-kicks-off-a-twitter-based-short-story/ http://www.amandaclaypowers.com/2009/10/12/neil-gaiman-kicks-off-a-twitter-based-short-story/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:27:03 +0000 Amanda Clay Powers http://www.amandaclaypowers.com/?p=542 Tomorrow (October 13th) at noon Eastern, Neil Gaiman is going to tweet the first line of a new story, which will then be continued by fans. I cannot imagine how this will be compiled, but BBC Audio is claiming that it will then be recorded and available for download.

How on earth anyone will make sense of a cacophony of thousands, I do not know. They plan to stop 1000 tweets–but I think the response will be much greater–Gaiman has more than 1.2 Million followers on Twitter. I missed the inspirational Twitter Opera event entirely, but I’m fascinated by the idea of a crowd-sourced story. You can follow the excitement (or contribute to it) by searching for the #bbcawdio hashtag on Twitter or using this search. The format for contributing is @BBCAA Your Tweet Here #bbcawdio.

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