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Twitter - Is this what it's all about?
I once bought a book because I saw it on Twitter. Sometimes it alerts me to a new book by an author I'm not following in any other way. But if they ran Twitter on the sales made through me they'd be passing the hat round!
What your cat had for dinner is almost certainly more interesting than what you had (especially if you post the photo of half a mouse).But you are not interesting; your book is not interesting; the nudie photos that accidentally leaked from your camera phone are not interesting -- unless you're already famous.
If people are already interested in you, Twitter and Facebook can be great tools. But for you, me and most other Indies, it's preaching to an empty room.
Unless you post that half-mouse -- that'll probably go viral.
The only pics that work are bacon pics.
I'm not a fan of twitter, it's too impersonal in my opinion, and discussions are complicated to follow, I find. Now learning to use it after so many years of not touching it for work, who knows, when it no longer has any secrets for me, I might give it another try!
Developing friendships here in our group will be more rewarding in many ways. Twitter is a waste of time, IMO.
Yeahm plus we're not limited to 140 characters :)
Just popped back and checked in to my twitter account. Seems my PR has been retweeted a few times and various souls have now appeared.
One of the lads has 223K followers. Well, I can see how that could make a difference.
I think he's still in school.
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I'm learning.
One of the lads has 223K followers. Well, I can see how that could make a difference.
I think he's still in school.
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I'm learning.
Jonathan wrote: "Twitter - As a debut author you must have a Twitter account. Hmmm. Ok. Well yes, I made one, I have two followers so far trying to sell me something or other. May even get a few more when I publish..."Twitter enable you to post links to your blog/website. Most blog/websites of any standing will report to you they get more traffic from these links being clicked than from people just going to their homepage and navigating from there.
I'm not saying twitter isn't perfect and like any social network, writers end up talking to & following other writers rather than hitting upon a community of readers, but it still has merit in my opinion.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Developing friendships here in our group will be more rewarding in many ways. Twitter is a waste of time, IMO."I've sold more books through twitter than GR Patti. Not that we're talking huge quantities mind.
Tim wrote: "What your cat had for dinner is almost certainly more interesting than what you had (especially if you post the photo of half a mouse).But you are not interesting; your book is not interesting; t..."
What Jeanette Winterson's cat had for dinner certainly went viral. But then she was already famous... (Winterson that is, not the cat)
Marc wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Developing friendships here in our group will be more rewarding in many ways. Twitter is a waste of time, IMO."I've sold more books through twitter than GR Patti. Not th..."
Then you're not doing it right.
I have a twitter account. I don't use it.Recently I used twitter to see what was going on with the Nato police and today to see if Doctor Who was really filming just 1/4 mile from my office.
I also looked at it before last Christmas to find out about the floods between my house and my mother's so I wouldn't get caught out in the traffic jams.
To buy a book, nope.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Marc wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Developing friendships here in our group will be more rewarding in many ways. Twitter is a waste of time, IMO."I've sold more books through twitter than GR ..."
ok, so tell me how I'm going wrong :-)
Probably a lack of bacon, Marc. ;)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Probably a lack of bacon, Marc. ;)"Roger or Francis?
PattiI'm curious. If you put on a posh telephone voice do you start talking about pancetta?
I've just had a new follower on Twitter. Someone who claims to be able to increase my business by selling me a list of followers. Now that sounds well dodgy to me! Thanks but no thanks!
Funnily enough I have sold 3 copies in the last few weeks through a GR forum chat. Even got a review out of it #wondersnevercease
Kath wrote: "I've just had a new follower on Twitter. Someone who claims to be able to increase my business by selling me a list of followers. Now that sounds well dodgy to me! Thanks but no thanks!"I get those from time to time. I just ignore them and usually they unfollow me after a few days. No great loss.
Will wrote: "PattiI'm curious. If you put on a posh telephone voice do you start talking about pancetta?"
Ha! Canadians don't do posh voices, eh.
Marc wrote: "Funnily enough I have sold 3 copies in the last few weeks through a GR forum chat. Even got a review out of it #wondersnevercease"Here's a big 'I told you so'.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Marc wrote: "Funnily enough I have sold 3 copies in the last few weeks through a GR forum chat. Even got a review out of it #wondersnevercease"Here's a big 'I told you so'."
Hmmm... Not on this forum I have to tell you! :-)
I don't like that you're playing away, young man!But I forgive you if it means sales. :)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I don't like that you're playing away, young man!But I forgive you if it means sales. :)"
Well it meant sales. probably done for now. It's a small group
I'm back now. Did you miss me?
Good thing I didn't take your eye out, eh?
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Good thing I didn't take your eye out, eh?"I've got another one
I'm actually very squeamish about eyes. But glass ones I can look at.I wrote a flash about developing floaters in the eye last year. it rivalled Kafka's "Metamorphosis" in ickyness
Marc wrote: "I'm actually very squeamish about eyes. But glass ones I can look at.I wrote a flash about developing floaters in the eye last year. it rivalled Kafka's "Metamorphosis" in ickyness"
Link?
it's in the book of flash I sent you Patti!It's called "Staring At The Sun"
I'll read it!Eventually. When I get my life back...
I have 1800 twitter followers. I post random crap intermittently and some folk like it, most don't care because I think twitter is just another way to see what celebs are up to. When I actually do book promo on twitter the same few people retweet the links but I'm not sure if it leads to sales. That said, it takes seconds to tweet so I carry on with it.
My two cents: it's not Twitter or blogging - you need to do both, and Facebook, Goodreads, everything.
Paul wrote: "My two cents: it's not Twitter or blogging - you need to do both, and Facebook, Goodreads, everything."I need staff. There are simply not enough hours in the day! (and that's without doing any work or writing)
I've finally set my facebook page to automatically dump stuff to twitter Lord help them
Jim wrote: "I've finally set my facebook page to automatically dump stuff to twitter Lord help them"
Mine goes the other way from Twitter to Farcebook.
Well, Wordpress sends it to Twitter, then Twitter sends it to my personal FB page.
My FB author page gets it straight from Wordpress without any of that tedious mucking about in the Twittersphere*.
*Gratuitous HHGTTG reference powered by The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Can you not have one of them send it back to Wordpress? Then it'll just go round in circles.You'll fill up the internet and we can all go back to writing!
Tim wrote: "Can you not have one of them send it back to Wordpress? Then it'll just go round in circles.You'll fill up the internet and we can all go back to writing!"
It's a plan :-)
Tim wrote: "Can you not have one of them send it back to Wordpress? Then it'll just go round in circles.You'll fill up the internet and we can all go back to writing!"
I'm working on it.
Ideally, I could do with a bot that just collects all the cute cat pictures from Farcebook sends them to Wordpress, which automatically converts them to blog posts and then Wordpress sends them all back out again to Twitter that then sends them to Facebook... then....
Well, it is as much of a business plan as most internet startups.
why are there no cute dolphin photos abounding on the net?
Marc wrote: "why are there no cute dolphin photos abounding on the net?"There plenty. Just google 'cute dolphin pictures' and prepare to drown in them!
Could you imagine a cat-dolphin alliance? We humans would be rendered prostrate and they could take over the world
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Just curious as to who actually buys books because the author has a twitter account? Or facebook? Blog I can understand, give excerpts and blurb etc...
But Twitter? REALLY? I am kind of busy to be tweeting my every move. This morning I chopped some wood, then I chased a mouse round the house that my cat had got bored with. It died. Now I am online. Is this interesting?
I digress....your thoughts? ;)