What on earth is Quillpill?
Come visit Quillpill!
My Quillpill books (both are works in progress):
My Teen Years Poetry: The Sum of It
My Favorite Hobby-Genealogy: How To Get Started In Genealogy
Contents at a Glance
A Bit of History
(a very tiny bit)
Who would have ever thought that would happen? Certainly not the parents of the past several decades!
In Japan, seems they read serialized novels on their cell phones these days. Since the texting programs only allows for about 140 characters, you can imagine how short the segments are.
In America, while the text novels on cell phones haven't quiet caught on, something else has.
It is called Microblogging. What is THAT, you may be asking.
"Microblogging is the practice of sending brief posts to a personal blog on a microblogging Web site, such as Twitter or Jaiku. Microposts can be made public on a Web site and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers."-- Mircoblogging Defined
For a long time (or at least a long time in Internet life spans), Twitter was king...or Queen...of the micro-blogging sites.
Now there is a new spot on the Internet mirco-blogging block.
Welcome to Quillpill!
Below is a screen shot of their "About" page. Since a picture is worth a gazillion words and I don't want to use that many, I thought this would go a long way towards quickly introducing you to this interesting new site!

From the FAQ section of the Quillpill website:
Q: What is Quillpill?
A: Quillpill replaces your notebook. Write fiction, poetry, essays, or anything at all from your desktop or mobile phone. Whenever you have a moment, you can add a few sentences to your writing, or catch up on the progress of your friends. Write or read while waiting for a cab, sitting at a restaurant, or relaxing in bed.
Blog Posts from Google
- Brad Fallon & Free Line Report: Quillpill – Tunewiki – Orgoo ...
- http://freelinereport.com The FreeLine Report with Brad Fallon - Cell phone novels are all the rage right now in Japan, some even hitting the bestseller.
- Quillpill: A Twitter For Cell-Phone Novelists (500 Invites)
- Even if they could, few people have the time to write a book. But what if they could Twitter one? For all those ...
- quillpill closing - save you books!
- quillpill will be shutting down on the 15th. before then, save your books by going to ?my books? and clicking on the pen icon ?edit?. at the bottom of the expanded options you will see a link ?export to email. ...
- Quillpill: Cell Phone Novels Escape Japan
- For better or for worse the concept of the cell phone novel is making a splash in Western countries via a Twitter-like app called Quillpill. Quillpill handles all ...
How Does It Work?
See Quillpill on Twitter

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- New editing and book management features! Check out the details at http://tinyurl.com/6gjgrv
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- From the Quillpill blog: A message from our CEO: http://tinyurl.com/6khs2k
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- Getting to the end of the day here at Mobilize! It's been a great experience so far.
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- Quillpill is live, thank you for your patience!
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- We have another short downtime for scheduled maintenance this morning at 5amE/2amP for an hour as we deploy new features.
How Can You Use Quillpill?
Great Topics to Micro-Blog About
Use The K.I.S.S. Method:
"Keep It Simple Stupid"
Be concise. Always try and leave room for your website URL.
Phone numbers, addresses or personal info are not a good idea when posting in any public forum.
How Many Microblogging Sites are You On?
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- jipock jipock Feb 9, 2009 @ 9:09 am
- Great Tip! Thanks, Jenna
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- Tipi Tipi Oct 9, 2008 @ 10:30 am
- Very interesting, I'll have to come back when I have more time, I will support this lens. Lensrolling it, it's going to go far! *****
You will have some interesting people visiting this lenses. The members on Squidoo will love it!
Tipigal on Twitter
Thanks Sherry :) Nice lens!
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- flowski flowski Oct 8, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
- Currently I'm just using twitter, I'll have to check out Quillpill, thanks for the tip!








