I’ve been playing around with Twitter for a long time now — and although my relationship with it has been up and down, I think it’s great fun. I’ve set up lots of accounts, some personal, some private, and some have been very, very public (@guardiantech, which I originally set up to send myself text message alerts, now has 1.6 million followers).

The other day I was thinking about how I like to share links with people on Twitter, Delicious, Pinboard and so on. And I thought about how I like to read great writing. Could I hook the two together? Of course.

Naturally, I started an account dedicated to exactly that: @IfYouOnly, an attempt to highlight a single piece of interesting writing each day.

There are few rules at the moment, apart from the idea that it’s there to highlight important or interesting pieces of writing from any point in history. I want to see if it grows, how it grows, why it grows, what it does, how people use it, whether it’s useful. Follow, share, suggest articles, do whatever you like.

I was inspired by a couple of other projects, primarily 1ArticlePerDay and LongForm, but there are some other schemes to highlight great writing and long-form journalism: the subject of a very nice Poynter column recently.

Will it work? Not sure, but let’s see where this goes.