Literary types are obsessed with Twitter,” observes GalleyCat, the mediabistro daily book blog. They may be right. As the same blog points out, there are book clubs on the microblogging site, as well as hardcover books composed of Twitter posts (see “Twitter Wit” and “My Life In Tweets.”)
And now there is even a book catalog on Twitter.
Countryman Press is putting their entire fall catalog on the microblogging site, with all books noted and summarized in 140-word posts.
140 words would be luxurious
That’s the length of a FriendFeed message (FaceBook also, I think). That’s a short paragraph, enough for a terse but adequate description of a book.
Unfortunately, the Twitter limit is 140 *characters*–about 25 words. The paragraph above is too verbose for a tweet.