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Twitter's focus on immediacy means most of what we tweet ends up lost in the ether after an hour—maybe a few days, if you tweet something particularly incendiary. But AuthorBee wants to give you tools to create longer-lasting content on Twitter with a new storytelling platform.
While Storify and Twitter's own Custom Timelines let you curate Twitter tweets to your heart's content, AuthorBee's focus is content creation. The Web-based platform is designed for storytelling in 140-character chunks, but AuthorBee founder Stephen Bradley envisions the site will be used in many other ways: crowdsourcing song lyrics, writing recipes, or any other collaborative effort.
AuthorBee lets you pose a prompt on Twitter and create a story based on crowdsourced responses.
Storytelling, 21st century style
The platform's one downfall is that you have to mention @AuthorBee in your tweet to initiate or add to a storyline, which reduces the number of characters you have for your own content. You also have to reply to a tweet—either your own or a collaborator's—to continue the thread, cutting down your available space even more.
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