Manuel Bartual: "Strange things have happened to me for months


Manuel Bartual: "Strange things have happened to me for months



The Twitter user who with the story of his vacation went from 16,000 to 449,000 followers defends that Twitter is also a tool for fiction



         Manuel Bartual takes the stage and, of course, the first thing that comes out hand in hand as a greeting is that "very strange things happen to me a few months ago". And the assistants explode in a loud laugh. Then the phrase that has changed his life appears on the screen: "I have been on vacation for a couple of days in a hotel near the beach".

It is the beginning "of a story I told for seven days". It had consequences. "I had a great time telling her. And it was the germ of a story that connected a lot with people, I went from 16,000 to 449,000 followers. It had 555k RTs and reached 1.3B (of a billion) impressions and 4M of 'likes' ».

     Bartual explained how he made his story. "I used what I had within my reach while on vacation. I saw clearly play with the idea of ​​'The invasion of the ultrabodies', one of my favorite movies. I had in mind 'The Blair Witch Project', which is a 1999 movie, of a group of students disappearing into a forest when investigating a legend.

Years later his tapes are found ... And it is a pleícula of terror ». He points out from this latest film that "they took a lot of advantage for their promotion of the Internet, which was then coming to homes, and they did not say it was fiction. When I saw her at the cinema, it was a brutal experience. "

Then, Bartual reviews the rest of the material on which he was inspired for his tweeted series. From 'Marble Hornets' of 2008-2011, about a student who happens to disappear his roommate and searching finds some videos ». In this case, it is a serial web.

Regarding 'Ghost Watch, he stressed that it is a fictional program broadcast on Halloween night in 1992.' It's a 'reality' in studio and outdoors with a team that searches for houses with ghosts. It ended fatally. It was issued in a strip that there was always fiction.

It was announced that it was fiction. Well, nothing. The BBC switchboard was saturated with 30,000 calls ». He remembered, of course, the radio broadcast of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds.

"What does all this have to do?" He asked himself about the TATGranada scenario. "Everyone used the most appropriate medium in their time to play with the limits between reality and fiction." «Our generation is Internet. I'm sure that Orson Welles in 2018 would have done 'The War of the Worlds' on Twitter. "

What causes?


Bartual returned to answer his own question with the example of a youtuber who wrote about his summer series: "I do not want to believe it at all but I do not want to think it's a lie either."

Then, Manuel Bartual analyzed the success of his tweeted adventure, in which he fictionally narrates how a double of his enters his beach hotel room, steals a shirt, follows him back to Madrid and then ends up tweeting with photos and videos a colossal mess that caught thousands of twitters.

     In the first place, Bartual believes that the time of year is fundamental. And his series was released on Twitter in the summer. He also believes that «it was a phenomenon of Twitter for Twitter, where it becomes the sofa of our house where we comment with our friends through the mobile phone». It is also important "the management of the times, in my case, a week".

     Bartual told the process that happened to realize what his series was causing. «One Friday night I stopped for dinner. A friend sent me a video of seven teenagers watching the video of when the guy enters the room. The rock was biting its nails. I realized perfectly what was happening on the other side. They were staying to consume the story. I understood then the scope of the phenomenon ».

     And then the madness came. «José Coronado saw it clearly and he sent me a tweet with the photo of his violent cop and he told me not to worry that he was going to solve everything». And more. «Iker Casillas went crazy making memes with known movies».


And then Iñigo Errejón, Civil Guard, brands like Trivago. Cristina Pedroche wanted to chime with me! Creativity was unleashed on memes, movie posters, makeup, and even a Halloween costume with my face! ».

To finish, Manuel Bartual said that "the most exciting thing was that the #GraciasManuel label was TT when I finished the story". And phrases like "I never thought that Twitter would make me so happy". "There are even people who write that are waiting for the second season."

"What differentiates us from animals is that we tell stories." «And we want more stories.

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