Twitting Twitter as genre 2.0 or what is new in digital theory of genres

The paper analyzes twitting as a new convergent digital genre initiated by the Twitter micro-blogging service on the Net. It is the twitting that combines all peculiarities of genres 2.0 appeared due to web 2.0 conception. The paper specifies namely those characteristics of Twitter that permit to define it as a new separate genre 2.0. Among them one can mention a high level of addressivity, coherence, situativity, interactivity, hybridisation and convergence.