I’m pretty active on Twitter and I often mention articles I’m working on in my tweets. I even look for sources by posting requests on Twitter. I’ve connected with more than a few PR specialists through the site, too — and I’ve been seeing something that worries me. I’ve gotten more than a few bad [...]

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Can you scare the pants off of readers in 140 characters or less? Tweet The Meat publishes horror stories through its Twitter feed, along with the occasional weird or speculative pieces. And it’s a paying market — $1.00 per tweet. The Tweet Set-Up Tweet The Meat shares a story-tweet, followed by a secondary tweet including [...]

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Thaumatrope isn’t the only paying market for Tweets: Outshine accepts submissions of “prose poems of optimistic, near future SF.” Outshine’s submission guidelines are listed on ShineAnthology’s website. The Twitterzine is offering $5 per prose poem. Accepted poems are published to Outshine’s Twitter account on Wednesdays, with a follow up tweet of a bio.

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Carefully crafted tweets are starting to pay off. I’ve seen writing contests for well-written tweets, whether prose or poetry, already. I think, however, that Thaumatrope is the first paying market for 140 character writing. Thaumatrope publishes science fiction, fantasy and horror stories that fit into the 140 character space of a tweet. I’d call that [...]

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