twiction
English
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[edit]twiction (uncountable)
- (Internet slang, literature) Fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; fictional works of Twitterature.
- 2012 February 1, Ben Mitchell-Lewis, The Best Flash Fiction on Twitter, Hyperink Inc, →ISBN:
- Call it flash fiction, nanofiction, twitfic, twiction, or a dozen other names. Though the name might not yet be agreed upon, flash fiction tweets are here to stay. The premise is simple: create a whole story with only 140 characters.
- 2018 04, Kim Adrian, The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:
- Popular contemporary cousins include six-word memoirs, twiction, and the blog-born listicle. Nonliterary ancestors can be traced primarily to mid-century visual artists whose works explore themes of appropriation (e.g., Duchamp, […]
- 2018, Christina Maria Huber, Will Spook You For Real: Strategies of inspiring Societal Anxieties, Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, →ISBN, page 111:
- The latter has made people remark that “the novel by tweet is really a digital extension of flash fiction, an established literary genre 262 TG 2014 263 Other terms most commonly used include twitterature and twiction; an alternative […]