TED Talks - Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction

Summary:
    Andrew Fitzgerald works as a member of the news and journalism partnership team at Twitter, is also a writer of a novel, an editor and a Tweeter. He experiments with new and creative ways of story-telling in his spare time, and the outcome was pretty much interesting, which draws the outline of digital story-telling on social media. In the speech, Andrew Fitzgerald showed three good examples of how creatively can platforms like Twitter can be used for writing fiction and non-fiction stories together with Tweeters. Andrew explains that, in fact, several series of fiction novels have published by initially coming out as a short story on twitter. Later on, there are multiple  perspective and feedback from readers involved as a part of the story, which in turn makes it possible for the fiction characters to engage with the real world and eventually came out to be great series of artwork. At the end of the speech, he suggests people to make good and creative use of these digital tools, and to think of the new structure of digital story-telling.

What can listeners learn from this talk?
    Human beings are born to be story tellers, and people do love to tell stories. Luckily, we're now living in a digital generation with a wide-open accessibility to powerful tools on the internet, such as social media websites and blogs, which can spread our ideas or stories rapidly with little effort. In other words, even though we didn't intent to tell the world our stories, it might just go viral by itself if the story is considered interesting or inspiring to the readers. However, not everyone have the talent or been trained for literature. In this case, by following the way the speaker suggested, every single person can take part in a story and be a co-author only by posting their lines on Twitter. Thanks to technology, real time story-telling has blurred the line between fact and fiction, and the line between writer and reader as well. Writing a novel haven't become so easy for either the author or the reader, the writers get enthusiasm from feedback to keep up their good works and the readers can find what they want to read easily and leave comments simultaneously, which is a whole new experience of reading. I'm pretty much looking forward to this online co-working trend of writing novels to go viral and someday to involve in one of them.