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Jennifer Egan on storytelling in a data-hooked world

The TED Interview

CHAPTER

Writing Outside of a Print Book

Twitter was certainly part of the inspiration in that. i was looking for a story i could tell in a hundred and forty character utterances, and it was tweeded but i didn't really know how it would work on twitter. All i had managed to accomplish was to get hacked by a viteman sales person and send vitemanads out omy nortl new your say,. my believerd followers of those that were still with me after that mess. But what i was told by people who were deeply into twitter was that it actually wasn't that satisfying as a twitter experience for many reasons. One was, the tweets came once a minute, which was way to seldom. And for people

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