Engaging on Twitter

Today I have 37,000+ Twitter Followers. It's gotten to the point I have so many Notifications in my timeline overnight and throughout the day that I can't scroll through them all (Windows 8 doesn't help). That bothers me knowing someone might have commented to me or sent me something they think I'd like and I don't see it and they are ignored. I hate being ignored, and don't want to do that to anyone. I was at least Favoriting comments if I couldn't respond, so at least the person knew I saw it.

I'm now getting more than 100 new followers most days and it's all I can to to follow them back. I think I'm missing some. And again, I don't want people to feel they didn't make the cut. I used to be selective in whom I followed but I've loosened up and try to follow back almost everyone.

Now I understand why celebrities don't follow back or engage with the public on Twitter. There isn't time! They get hundreds of thousands of followers, it's impossible.

I've got my content and promo and advocacy tweets automated now. I do tweak them trying to get a good mix to entertain and inform people with. I hope nobody feels like my whole timeline is "Buy My Book" and "You Have Skin Cancer, Fool".  In a good week I might sell one book, so my real purpose is to get people daydreaming by putting my little novel lines out there. And I want everyone to realize they might be susceptible to skin cancer and take preautions, even if they are young, black and careful.

So I'm going to stop fretting about missing followers and comments since it's out of my normal human being control. Instead I'm going to finally relax and engage and get exited and enjoy my virtual pals.