[Posted by Ed Hadley
Senior Marketing Manager, Neolane, Inc.]

As a past student in the interdisciplinary American Studies program at a liberal arts college, I learned to make connections between seemingly disparate concepts.  That’s probably why, on the bus this morning, I started writing about what my favorite writers and poets would think of Twitter, were they alive today.

Here are eight fun intersections between writing and tweeting, fiction and followers, poems and memes:

	Ernest Hemingway Twitter’s 140-character limit would seem ideal for Hemingway’s short, declarative sentences. However, he’d find tweeting too distracting while hunting big game in Africa.
	J.D. Salinger Salinger’s tweets would be protected and there would be a rumor circulating the twittersphere that they would all be made public after his death.
	Joseph Heller Heller wouldn’t tweet until he acquired followers, but no one would follow him until he tweeted. Catch-22.
	William Faulkner Faulkner would only tweet foursquare check-ins from his “own little postage stamp of native soil”: fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
	E.E. Cummings Cummings would hate Twitter. He’d see the rampant lack of punctuation and capitalization as a blatant rip-off of his trademark style. #fail
	Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut would have two accounts: one for himself and one for character Kilgor Trout. He’d also single-handedly make #SoItGoes a trending topic.
	George Orwell Orwell wouldn’t have an account on Twitter, or any social network for that matter. He’d be too concerned with what Big Brother was doing with his data.
	James Joyce Joyce would literally tweet non-stop. You know why? It would take roughly 183,265 tweets just to broadcast the first chapter of Ulysses.

What would other famous writers, living or dead, think of Twitter?  Let’s keep the conversation going in the comments below.

p.s. I’m already formulating a follow-up post on what fictional characters (e.g. Holden Caulfield, Jay Gatsby, etc.) would think of Twitter.  Feel free to send me suggestions via Twitter @edhadley.