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The Twitter novel is a literary form which is made up entirely of individual 140-word posts, commonly known as tweets, posted from bottom-to-top in chronological order on the Twitter microblogging service.

Keitai shousetsu as antecedent
The Japanese form of keitai shousetsu, or cell phone novel, is commonly described as the literary antecedent to the Twitter novel.

"First" Twitter novel
The most commonly acknowledged "first" Twitter novel would be N.L. Belardes' Small Places, which began posting on Twitter on April 25, 2008. The most recent claim of "first" Twitter novel would be Matthew Stewart's The French Revolution, which began posting on Twitter on July 14, 2009. This claim was later contested, but Stewart responded that he only claimed to be the first novelist to "release" his novel on Twitter.

Other notable Twitter novels
(1)http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_novels_not_big_success_stories.php (2)http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/10/30/the-novel-by-tweet/ (3)http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-stewart/why-im-releasing-my-novel_b_231385.html (4)http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2009/07/16/man-claims-to-be-first-tweet-novelist-is-wrong (5)http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/75186-All-a-Twitter/ (6)http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/75180-Novel-idea-Twitter-fiction/ (7)http://www.metroactive.com/metro/05.13.09/arts-0919.html (8)http://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_10682324 (9)http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/introducing-the-twiller/ (10)