Hey everyone,

Not sure if anyone here has seen a site called TwitterLit (www.twitterlit.com) - very nifty little thing. Basically, it's a regular stream of the first lines of novels, plus links to the book on Amazon, so you can try and guess what the book is... Quite good for jumpstarting the brain, although I often find what I expect the book to be about on the basis of the first line bears no resemblance to what it's actually about when I've read the synopsis on Amazon :S

(The slightly silly name is because you can get the updates over Twitter)

I read about Twittering in the weekend papers - A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? www.twitter.com
There are some quite famous twitters out there.

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from http://twitter.com/jodrellbank - love the last one:-

Performing maintenance on our telescopes. 02:38 PM May 09, 2007
Having a star party. 11:49 PM May 06, 2007
Getting ready for star party on Sunday night (tonight) at the Visitor Centre. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. 12:58 AM May 06, 2007
Putting new wheel on giant Lovell Radio Telescope - should be operating again by end of the day with any luck! 11:02 AM May 04, 2007
First direct optical images of aftermath of recent titantic explosion in star system 5000 lyr away. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/new... 07:46 PM May 03, 2007
Evidence that giant whirlpools form in wake of stars moving through clouds in interstellar space. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/new... 07:45 PM May 03, 2007
Steamy clouds have been observed bubbling away from four massive stars known as red supergiants. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/new... 07:43 PM May 03, 2007
Having a nice relaxing cup of tea. 07:15 PM May 03, 2007


:)

Excellent find on the Jodrell Bank one - its activities are surprisingly varied...

Darth Vader (http://twitter.com/darthvader) is another excellent one:

" Helmet polish: 10 credits. Ewok taxidermy: 45 credits. Seeing the look on Solo's face when he first spotted me on Bespin: Priceless."

Lol!