Canadian author Margaret Atwood is suprisingly an active Twitter user even at 70. Atwood thinks that Twitter like other new forms of communication are modernizations of things that already existed earlier in some other form, like Africa Drums.

In an interview for Big Think, Atwood expressed her enthusiam for the microblogging website. The prolific novelist says Twitter has many facets, but warned that people should realize that tweeting is publishing.

"Twitter is a very interesting phenomenon because you get all kinds of things going on and it's not just one thing. You have people writing Haiku on it," said Atwood."

You have people yelling at other people and they probably should realize that Twittering is publishing. And you can end up with a libel suit on their hands. That hasn't quite sunk in, in some areas, but it's true; so is blogging."

As of today, Atwood enjoys an 85,000 strong following on Twitter.

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for her novels "The Handmaid's Tale," "Cat's Eye," "Alias Grace," "The Blind Assassin," and "Oryx and Crake." She received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. Her most recent novel is "The Year of the Flood."

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