Twitter: Online soap opera ‘Chicago to Coronado’ comprised of the tweets of our lives

Last time on “The Young and the Clueless,” Amanda awoke in a Havana hospital suffering from amnesia. The only hints to her identity were scattered about her bed — a black rose, a laptop and a shirtless man named Ricardo. Compelling, isn’t it? Well that soap opera exists only in my imagination. But there’s another one that’s taking on a life of its own online. And while most people associate soaps with TV or maybe radio, Kirsten Osolind is creating a new era of storytelling using the Web and social media. Osolind, a former marketing agency CEO in Chicago, says the story line is loosely based on her personal relocation last year from Chicago to Coronado, Calif.. She says her ultimate goal is to flip the traditional entertainment model — starting with social media and then branching out to a TV series and books. Read the entire Chicago Tribune article here.