Shelfari is Twittering!

For those of you who have been deeply buried in a long book for the past few years and haven't yet heard of Twitter, it's a platform where people can post short (140 characters or less) messages that anybody who is 'following' you will see. Just go to www.twitter.com to sign up and then to www.twitter.com/shelfari where you can see all of our latest posts. Click on the 'follow' button underneath our icon to have all of our updates added to your twitter stream and anytime you come back to www.twitter.com you'll see the latest.

We'll be posting site updates as they occur, but more interestingly we'll also be putting up, on a daily basis, our favorite user-contributed Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis from our new book detail pages. If you’re not familiar with the Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis, it’s a way for the community to create an extremely concise summary of a book. Here’s a few of the best we’ve seen submitted so far:

- Santa Claus gives deadly weapons to children so they can assassinate a witch. (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis)

- Sort of like the Hope/Crosby road movies, only with baby-eating cannibals. (The Road, by Cormac McCarthy)

- Vampire falls in love with his dinner. (Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer)

- Anthropomorphic feline wages psychological warfare against a sentient goldfish, all related in anapestic tetrameter. (The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss).

Feel free to submit a synopsis for your favorite book and see if it makes it into the top twitter list! (And, just so you know, we tend to look favorably upon synopses that amuse us, so get creative!)

As long as you've signed up for twitter, you might also want to follow a few of your favorite authors. Here's a short list of some of the more popular writers on twitter (many who twitter several times a day about what they're thinking or what they're working on):

John Cleese, Paulo Coelho, Stephen Fry, Warren Ellis, Chris Anderson, Neil Gaiman, Meg Cabot, Derren Brown, Joe Hill, Andy Ihnatko, Elizabeth Bear, Chuck Palahniuk

Longer lists can be found here and here.

Sign up and send us a 'hello' when you get there.  And please 're-tweet' any of the Synopses that you particularly enjoy.  We'll see you on Twitter!

Comments

[nysh]

ah, it's abt time. i had tweets with 'Shelfari' in it, a few times! ;) keep up the good work.

[Mz. Cool Author of "CHUBBY" The Hhydraulics of a Neurotic]

Drama, suspense, street-lit, mystery, humor, sex,love and horror. Get ready to laugh, cry, empathize, anticipate and ecperience the hydraulics!

[Gillian]

I wish Shelfari will work properly on Facebook. Any chances of that being fixed soon?

[silvakreuz]

Ditto Mz. Cool :) And I'm glad that Shelfari is now part of the Twitterverse :D Hope to exchange tweet with you soon! ;)

[Jan Onesork]

Good to see shelfari on twitter!

[Nautica]

Ithink twitrtering on shelfari is not ok because kids come to this website and look at thier shelfari and they might see sometihng inapropoiete.

[Luella Carney]

You missed J K Rowling and Laurrel K Hamilton. Ms Rowling doesn't post much, but Ms Hamilton posts multiple times a day about life and writing.

[Terri Hudson]

Way to go . I add you there. Thanks for update.

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