Can One Write Serious Twitter Fiction?

But can a serious work of fiction emerge from a series of tweets? Professor of Digital Humanities at University College London, Melissa Terras, told The Atlantic that all literary forms come with their own forms of constraint, and "Twitter is simply the latest restriction." "It's the role of literature to play with forms," she said. "In poetry you have very rigid forms, and people have to operate within those constraints." (Think about Shakespeare's sonnets for example.) "With Twitter fiction, people are taking the limitation of 140 characters and doing something creative. It's a slightly different art form and it creates a different experience of fiction."