Are Twitter Novel A Form Of Literature?

ARE TWITTER NOVELS A FORM OF LITERATURE?


It is clear that Twitter has revolutioned the society in an important way and it allows the constant exchange of all kind of information. This servicehas had an important social and informational impact, because it fullls all the characteristiques of the society of information, it brings all kind of information to several parts of the world, in realtime, and it is present anywhere and for anyone. After the  Rick Moody's Microserialized Twitter Fiction Project where by twetts the users were able to create an history (which it was called `SomeContemporary Characters'), it is possibly to think that twitter has a few more characteristics, because of all its popularity, maybe twitter novels are a kind literature nowadays. To start we shouldask ourselves, What is literature? Literature is the art which it uses the word as instruments; this also applies to all literary productions of a nation, of an age or a gender and the set of worksthat deal with an art or a science, so we have for example fantasy literature, medical literature or mathematical literature. Even 300 years ago in Spain the word literature was used as every writtenexpression (Spanish Golden Age); the writer did not need to write a phrase in verse or in a specic topic to be considered as a kind of literature. According to these characteristics it is possible tohave a twitter literature. It is possible that the idea that twitter is a kind of literature is a little akward, it would be a very strange literature because the messages are so short (the user isallowed to use just 140 characters) so there is not a lot of information in each of those, ergo there is no way to develop the ideas just by tweets . amount of spam is enormous. If twitter is a kindof literature, it would be unique? That is to say, there is other type of literature which it is near to the twitter literature? The answer seems to be armative. Since the year 2000 in Santiago...