One of the recent surveys finds that “the region's largest demographic segment,” namely 200 million Arabs, are under 25 years of age. The young generation is in command of digital literacy and have adapted non-traditional forms of media. These media represent new writing and reading experiences which compel the critic to examine these literary sites and reevaluate questions of genre, reception, language, and authority. Blogging and tweeting political events have engendered another form of narration and retelling that could only be examined in a comparative framework along with new fiction. In this paper I will highlight the relationship between the political events in Egypt, Tunisia, and other Arab countries and the new writing in Arabia, which I will argue anticipated and performed youth rebellion and defiance. My paper addresses the following questions: To what extent can we think of twitter characters as fictional narrators who sometimes participate in the action and at others retell the event while observing it from a distance? What are the connections between characters on twitter and those found in new writing? In this paper, I’ll focus on a few characters on twitter including Mona Eltahawy, Zeinobia, iRevolt Roqayah, Ahmed Al Omran, Gsquare86 and Dima Khatib. Their tweets are bold, animated and occasionally outrageous. Some of them are semi anonymous, thereby offering them much mobility and freedom. During the violent moments in the recent uprisings, they were seeing, reporting, warning, and mobilizing readers. I argue that these practices render their tweets hyper-texts, situated between detective genres and slasher films, further blurring the distinction between fiction and new media reporting, twitter sites and new wri