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So, I’ve been meaning to write about Swotter for a while. A couple of weeks ago, it finished reading the whole of James Joyce’s Ulysses to Twitter. I think there’s something kind of amazing about that, but I’m not sure what. Final stats:

• Followers: 198 (meh)
• Updates: 23,467 (phew!)

Props to the hardcore who followed it all the way. I’m not sure what to say about this, but I’m going to have a think, and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Check the Swotter page too, for more info.

In the mean time, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of lit-related action on Twitter, in no particular order:

• Booktwo (obviously)
• ArtsHub - Australian creative news
• ReadersRead - book news
• Book_Blog
• Zombie Attack - an ongoing story, told by Twitter
• TwitterLit - twittering the first lines of books
• Jenny Holzer - more art than lit, but still wonderful (and I’m told it really is her?)
• 3:AM Magazine - the best lit mag on the web (slight bias alert)
• ReadySteadyBook - one of the finest litblogs
• BAFAB - buy a friend a book
• The Book Depository - your Amazon alternative
• OUP Blog - nice that it’s actually twittering, rather than twitterfeeding
• Hesperus Press - a lovely little publisher
• Brit Lit Blogs - several of the best, rounded up
• Blogographos - group classics blog
• TwitterProse - lines from creative nonfiction
• Canongate - another small (but not very) publisher
• Snowbooks - my old employer
• TwitterFiction - Great works of fiction in 140 characters or less
• Speechification - Because. And occasionally lit-related
• Technical Writing - what it says on the tin
• Screenwriting - from writerswrite
• Quotesblog - quotes for quotation junkies
• TwitterQuote - more of the same

That’s enough for now, but I’d love to hear more. Please add your favourites in the comments and I’ll add them to the list, with a view to moving this to a dedicated page at some point. Note that it’s not really a list for individuals, unless they’re relentlessly lit-focussed.

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