Twittering a story on Twitter: Today

Looking forward to this story, Stephen!

- First, I recommend that at least your first tweet contain a link to the story's home page (maybe it's this post or a new one at 2:30pm). That way people can follow what's happening. I recommend using http://snipurl.com to shorten your story's URL both to save on the number of characters used in the link and because they offer stats like how many people clicked on the link, which will help you analyze your experiment.

- Second, to aggregate the tweets for your story, I recommend using hash tags, which are #keywords placed in the message as a tracking ID. You have to add twitter.com/hashtags for them to be correctly aggregated. Checkout http://hashtags.org/ to see your aggregated conversation once it's rolling. Make sure to use the hashtag on every tweet you do for this story in order to aggregate them all.

- Finally, keep in mind that using links and hashtags in your messages counts toward your 140 char limit. :)

Hey Stephen,

Check this out for Twitter and business. http://gobigalways.com/twitter-a-two-way-social-computer/

Look forward to participating.

Cheers,
Sam

Steve,

This is great stuff. This reminds me of Wired's wiki experiment from years past (http://www.socialtext.net/wired/index.cgi?wired_wiki) - but this should illustrate how quickly stories evolve on Twitter, much faster than in their experiment.

Looking forward to participating.

Justin's spot on w/ the hashtags, etc.

Actually, just use the hashtag. Settle on something like #bweek - which is unique enough to find, and short enough to not eat up valuable real estate.

Don't bother with following @hashtag -- just got to http://twemes.com/bweek to follow your conversation. You can use a different tag if you'd like, your choice. Just be sure to tell everyone what to use. (And remember, it's good etiquette to place the hashtag at the end of the tweet.)

@solacetech using Friendfeed.com to aggregate twitter is the cleanest way...
Or rather the best way to have an open platform for conversation.

What a great idea. I'm intrigued to find out how the story changed -- as much as I am to see what the story is.

At some point, you should publish a meta-version of the story, an open book for everyone to see how this was constructed.

Brad
http://www.themodernjournalist.com

@JCrites jumping in and following this on Twitter. I love the combo of a blog article with Twitter use. Bravo!

Here's a widget to help follow the discussion ...

http://beta.tagware.com/demo/bw/bw.html

I like the difference of opinion about where the conversation's anchor lies. Could be the hashtag page, could be the twemes page, could be FriendFeed. That's one problem with Twitter. There aren't clear threads or clear homes for those threads.

Really cool experiment Steve. The best part -- so far -- has been watching you adapt how you'll create the story in real-time.

This is definitely a topic of much debate around twitter, the social media world, and now elsewhere.

Can't wait to see the result!

Justin, I beg to differ. ALL of those aggregation techniques are valid, and they work in parallel. The person making the Tweet doesn't need to choose. The collector can pick the system they like the best.

This is a great idea.

We've been using it to write a book on Twitter during the past month.

When you post the final article. I'd like to link to it from out blog

Warren Whitlock
http://TwitterHandbook.com