David Mitchell to Publish Short Story on Twitter Over Seven Days

Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell will publish his next work of fiction in 140-character instalments on Twitter.

The British novelist has written a short story called The Right Sort which readers can enjoy in bitesize chunks over the next seven days, twice a day.

There will be 20 tweets at a time and a total of 280 tweets for the story narrated by a teenage boy who discovers Valium. A cluster of tweets have already been tweeted via his Twitter handle, @david_mitchell.