It was the worst of times - Penguin gets into Twitterature

Ed Pilkington
June 26, 2009

IS THERE no end to Twittermania? Chat room, news feed, celebrity watch, rebel intercom: for such a young technology, Twitter has already generated an improbable array of uses, not to mention a couple of potentially very rich founders.

But now, the microblogging site is about to become a tool to aid the digestion of great literature.

Fans of the classics will be delighted or appalled to learn that the New York branch of Penguin books has commissioned a volume that will put great works through the Twitter mangle. The volume has a working title that will make the nerve ends of purists jangle: Twitterature.

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