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As of this week, novelist Salman Rushdie has officially joined Twitter, and he is shaping up to be almost as prolific as Alec Baldwin. Eight tweets in the last hour! Twenty-two in the last day! Rushdie is rubbing shoulders with exactly whom you would expect him to — Margaret Atwood, Mia Farrow, and his scrabble partner Kylie Minogue (so maybe not whom you would expect?) — and, when not replying to people, he is tweeting appropriately novelistic content: “Agreed, ‘perfection’ an illusion. I prefer #RandallJarrell: A novel is a long piece of writing that has sthg wrong with it”; “Today we move on from ontological questions”; and “Who’s your publisher?” [SalmanRushdie1/Twitter via Guardian UK]