"The Twitter battle, under the hashtag #calcwars, is scripted in advance by the students in a Google document and edited in weekly meetings. The students used The Calculus Wars to provide a basic timeline but added details through their own research."

Another similar project! It think the idea is catching on.

Two families in the same town have loathed one another for years. But a boy from one and a girl from the other fall in love - deep, sweet and destructive. You know the tale of Romeo and Juliet but now you can see it happening live and in real time - in modern Britain and on Twitter. Six characters live the story over the five weeks of Such Tweet Sorrow and you can experience it with them. Find out more.

A re-telling of Romeo and Juliet on twitter using different twitter accounts and other media to relate the story.

"You could take it a step further and have a multi-character story where each character gives a first-person account of the story in real time, all simultaneously. The chance for a complex, intense narrative is really amazing here."

Thoughts on HOW to use twitter to create engaging and powerful stories.

"A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid-perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero's journey. A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that's what a story used to be, and that's how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow."

longer, scholarly article on changing narrative forms. Could these changes be reflective of changes in our society and culture?

"Less interesting to me are the efforts to merely fragment narratives in 140-character chunks. As compelling as some of these projects are on an individual level, structurally they present a type of reformatting or, in some cases, adaptation. Though this has consequences on reception and the reading experience, it is not a radical reimagining of narrative structure. Distributed storytelling, on the other hand, draws together a number of different narrative traditions in a way that may, at least, provide a provocative way of thinking about narrative form. "

Good article that sums up projects that attempt to harness the power of Twitter to tell stories. The author concludes that mere adaptation is not a 'radical re-imagining' of story telling. But, there are some provocative projects happening. This was written in Nov. 2008 - I wonder if her opinion has changed ... or what would she think of SimSoap: Love in the CND?

"Question: is Twitter, the social messaging utility, a good platform for storytelling? Short Answer: No. Not that I heard anyone say it was. But with Twitter being the "in" tool this year, and storytellers jumping in, I wanted to add my two cents."

Critical review of Twitter as a storytelling medium.

if you question the power of the Twitter medium to convey story, read this story post.

"What role Twitter eventually will take in our culture -- other than short-attention-span distraction -- is hard to predict. But surely it is a possible venue for telling short stories, and Electric Literature is to be commended for splashing in with this one. But it shows that Twitter as a storytelling form hasn't been fully exploited -- yet."

A review of a twitter storytelling project that did not do so well, in the reviewers opinion.

This is a listing of the #simsoap hashtag and a good way to see the complete story as it unfolds.

A way to use Twitter as a method to create an unfolding, 'choose your own adventure' type story. The public writes the story as it goes along. They call it "round-robin interactive storytelling experience. He'll tweet the first line of the story and then the rest is up to you! " Could this method be used in a classroom?

Introduction to the SimSoap:Love in the CND on the Duke CIT blog