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Twitter Autobiographies: 140bio Feeds the Narcissism

by Warren Riddle on November 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM

Getting published was once the true signifier of an established and bona-fide writer. With its new "paperback microbiographies," though, 140bio is allowing anyone with a Twitter account to join that formerly elite class of professional and accomplished scribes.

For $18.99, the company will actually print your last 3,200 tweets in chronological order, even the replies if you so choose, and then bind them in one of two paperback styles. So, if you're sick of boring your friends and holiday guests with insufferable vacation videos, you can now irritate them with the most self-serving and insubstantial publication that has ever been printed (with the possible exception of the Sarah Palin autobiography). [From: 140bio, via Textually]

Tags: 140bio, books, self-publishing, top, Twitter, twitter autobiographies, TwitterAutobiographies, weird

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