I use two Twitter tools to alert me about what folks in the Twitterverse are saying about storytelling. My current favorite is Twicker (which works only on Mac OS 10). Twicker gives me a line of Twitter avatars across the bottom of my screen that represent tweets about storytelling. The tweets refresh at regular intervals that the user sets (every 15 seconds for me!). I like Twicker because it gives me the storytelling tweets almost in real time, and it also gives me live links to click on. I find material for A Storied Career, interesting people to follow, and occasionally people talking about me and my storytelling writings.
Twilert sends me a daily e-mail with all the same tweets I see on Twicker and is thus good for any storytelling tweets I’ve missed throughout the day (hey, I’m at my computer a lot, but not 24/7). Downside: No live links; I have to copy and paste.
I’ve noticed that daily storytelling themes seem to emerge on Twitter. Someone will tweet about a storytelling development or opinion, and the tweet will be retweeted. The more retweeting, the more apparent buzz.
So, I thought it might be a cool idea to do regular — possibly even daily — reports on storytelling buzz in the Twitterverse. Many of the items I cite are fair game for me to blog about later at greater length. Here’s what Twitterers have been buzzing about the past few days:
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- Whrrl, an application that, according to Mashable, “brings collective location-based storytelling to your iPhone.”
- World Storytelling Day, coming up this week (March 20)
- Storytelling in Joss Whedon’s TV show, “Dollhouse” and in “Battlestar Galactica,” as well as storytelling (or lack thereof) in the Watchmen movie (very mixed reviews on this one).
- Whrrl, an application that, according to Mashable, “brings collective location-based storytelling to your iPhone.”
Joyce Hostyn’s slideshow, “Influence through Storytelling” and accompanying wiki page on Vizthink.- Seth Godin’s blog post citing storytelling as the differentiator between publicity and public relations.