Twitter userpics L'vovskii, Gavrilov, VodennikovSince the talks of the FoR conference will be available online soon, we won't treat you to a conference report this time. Something else has been on my mind though. Popular in Dutch literature at the moment are the so-called "Writers on Heels": a group of female writers who don't refrain from exploiting good looks and charm in presenting their books. I was reminded of the "Writers on Heels" phrase when launching a Twitter account the other day. Just incase I decided to check whether I would find any "Writers on Tweets" there. Boy, I did. polumrak - a popular "fiction blogger" particularly in the mid-2000s - turns out to be a hardcore addict, writing up to ten posts a day; Linor Goralik-aka-snorapp is followed by an exceptionally large audience (1064 today); by contrast, Dmitrii Vodennikov - a near-pop star in offline life and host of a very popular blog - is watched by a much smaller group (92). The poet Stanislav L'vovskii is out there; so is jack-of-all-trades Aleksandr Gavrilov (writer, editor-in-chief of literary weekly Книжное обозрение (Book Review), publisher of the new literary journal Что читать? (What to Read?), and сo-owner of Moscow's popular intellectual hangouts Artefaq and Sestry Grimm). The only reason that I don't add more names is that that would make this an unbloggishly long post.Having merely had a peep at the Tweets of Gavrilov and co., I hesitate to draw drastic conclusions. In any case representatives of older generations seem, perhaps expectedly, less prominently represented here than in the blogosphere; a popularity chart of those writers who do twitter would differ radically from that of the same writers' blogs; and several of them write strongly literarily oriented updates. Examples? Goralik only writes "I see: ..." Tweets, with visual observations of the type that we know from her collection Found Life, among others. All you need to do to read some is surf to her Twitter page.ER