It might not surprise you to know that music is consistently among the most popular topics on Twitter. From interacting with your favorite artists to finding out about new songs, concerts and news, Twitter brings you closer to everything you love about music.

You can experience the biggest moments in music like the GRAMMY Awards together with other fans around the world. And whether you’re in the audience or watching from home, Twitter can take you backstage with your favorite musicians to experience their day-to-day firsthand. During this year’s South By Southwest Music Festival, for example, Alison Sudol of @AFineFrenzy gave her followers a pre-show look into her green room.

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You can even reach out directly to your favorite artists. There are thousands of musicians on Twitter, and 49% of our 140 million users follow at least one of them. Some, like @tompetty, hold Q&A; sessions with their followers, answering all kinds of questions (even offbeat ones). Others, like deadmau5, take fan interaction to a whole new level: when the DJ December 15, 2011

One last note: starting today, we’re making it even easier to discover and experience music on Twitter through a new partnership with Pepsi. @Pepsi will help people enjoy more music through free music downloads, music-focused original videos, and a series of pop-up concerts in the U.S. this summer and fall. Learn more about it on our Twitter Ads blog.

At such moments, it may be useful to explicitly recall your training:

— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) rationale for a story in Tweets is very compelling:

Several of my long-standing fictional interests converged in the writing of “Black Box.” One involves fiction that takes the form of lists; stories that appear to be told inadvertently, using a narrator’s notes to him or herself. My working title for this story was “Lessons Learned,” and my hope was to tell a story whose shape would emerge from the lessons the narrator derived from each step in the action, rather than from descriptions of the action itself....I’d also been wondering about how to write fiction whose structure would lend itself to serialization on Twitter. This is not a new idea, of course, but it’s a rich one—because of the intimacy of reaching people through their phones, and because of the odd poetry that can ha ppen in a hundred and forty characters.

I love that: “the odd poetry that can happen in a hundred and forty characters.” Twitter’s character limit isn’t a constraint so much as it’s a creative filter. It brings out the inner editor, makes us fine-tune our language to become more powerful. Even when you use multiple Tweets to tell a story, each individual Tweet contains ts own story.

Egan’s format here, emphasizing the mental list, works incredibly well with Tweets. While writing fiction on Twitter may not be new, this is definitely a big step in an original direction. We can’t wait to see where this story goes next.

With each number, imagine yourself rising out of your body and moving one step farther away from it.

— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction)

Follow @Nyerfiction to see the next installments of “Black Box”, and follow @twitterbooks for updates about the world of writing on Twitter.

Posted by Andrew Fitzgerald, Manager, Editorial Programming (@magicandrew)