Since its inception in 2006, many books have been released about Twitter. Some that tell you how to tweet, others that focus on business, there’s even one that just lists memorable tweets. Get ready for something new.
Neil Gaiman, known on Twitter as @Neilhimself, along with BBC Audiobooks America, have teamed up to make an audiobook using only tweets. Neil provided the first one and now it’s up to Twitter users to keep telling the story.
It all started on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 3pm PST, and the tweets keep coming in. They plan to log around 1,000 of them before they edit the material, compile a script and record and produce the audiobook. Once finished it will be available online to download for free from various audiobook retailers, iTunes and the BBCABA website.
To participate :
- Read the opening line of the story tweeted by Neil, and you should probably catch up with the story in progress by checking the hashtag #bbcawdio.
- Then follow them on Twitter @BBCAA and @reply the next sentence of the story
- Tweets should be formatted like this:@BBCAA Your Tweet Here #bbcawdio
They will be searching for entries based off of the @BBCAA and the #bbcawdio tags so be sure to include both if you want them to see your contribution.
Tell us what you think of this experiment in the comments. Will we see more projects like this in the future?
Get to know him
Neil Gaiman is the author of the novels The Graveyard Book (New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Best Audiobook of the Year), Coraline, Neverwhere, Stardust, Anansi Boys, the Hugo-and Nebula-winning American Gods, the Sandman series of graphic novels, and several collections of short fiction. Visit his blog at www.neilgaiman.com.
