The Twitter Read-a-thon
- May. 4th, 2010 at 8:57 AM
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.
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.

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Of course, I could be 100% wrong. As usual. In any case, I feel that life is too short for Twitter, so I won't know how it goes.
You may hear about how it goes - I'll follow up if anything interesting comes of it.
I would love to do this for perhaps an older book that doesn't get the attention it deserves and open it up to a new audience.
To be honest, I suspect most of the people following will have already read this book and the project will lose something as a consequence of that. But even though I don't use twitter, I can't help rooting for it to work out and for there to be a book I haven't read next year!
I think it's a cool idea, too. That's why I'm going to follow along, at least for a while.
Sometimes I think I need to join twitter and then I remember how much I procrastinate already :) And you've just reminded me thart I have to replace my Moomin writing paper...