What should follow Zola in the Twitter-to-movie pipeline?

These five viral threads are ready for the big screen

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As the printing press was to the Gutenberg Bible, Twitter is to Aziah "Zola" Wells' viral 148-tweet thread from 2015 about a trip to Florida gone extremely awry. But while countless books have made their way to the big screen, Zola's story remains the first and so far only example of the new micro-blogging form to have been actually adapted into a major movie release, out next week.

Admittedly, "Y'all wanna hear a story about why me & this b*tch here fell out?" is maybe not quite on par with, "Call me Ishmael." But it might, at the very least, be the digital equivalent of "All this happened, more or less." For, although Twitter has a reputation for being vapid and exaggerated and lacking in any literary merit, don't try telling me you're not sucked in by the cap-locked cliffhanger, "AND TWO BIG BLACK DUDES SNATCHED JESS!!!!!"

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.