I completely disagree with those who’d say “This is not really a story.” The twittories (or twittales?) should, if sustained as a genre, represent a new spin off on the older-living small form in fiction, be it poetry or prose, IMHO.

There was a British adage, probably outdated now, especially looking at the likes of Sascha Baron Coen, ‘A gentleman should be able to say so little — but to mean so much!’

“You’ve got the eyes of a stranger,” he said.
“Yes,” she replied, “I got his wallet too!”

I think it’s really works when a twitter story is effective as both a joke and as a hint towards a larger narrative.

It’s tiring when people say, “You can’t call that a story” (friends, family, writing group). Some say it’s only a fad in today’s information overloaded society, but clearly Hemingway would have disagreed.

This is precisely the kind of approach I took in writing Twitter fiction, using the one-liner as a thematic model. Few people appreciate how hard one-liners are, until they try to write a few really good ones.