Christopher Hivner's Blog - Posts Tagged "spam"
To Tweet or Not to Tweet
I haven’t written here in a while. It’s not you, it’s me. I’m . . . a bad blogger. I got busy doing other things: writing other blogs, working on a novella, etc. But I’m here now. That’s all that counts, right?
I don’t understand Twitter: Never have, probably never will. But I kept reading that if you’re a writer you have to be on Twitter so I joined. It’s been a few months now and I still have no idea what I’m doing. At most I’ve sent maybe 3 tweets in a day. Some of the people I’m following send 3 every femtosecond. I’ve gone 5 or 6 days without even logging on to Twitter.
The biggest confusion is how I’m supposed to use it as a writer. Recently I’ve read several articles about what I should and shouldn’t do. Big help they were as they all contradicted each other.
One tells me to use Twitter to send out links to my book, website, whatever. Others say, “Well you can do that in a minimal way, once in a while.” Yet another article said “NEVER! Never use Twitter to spam your followers with links and sales pitches! NEVER!”
As an aside, I like the Spam you buy at the supermarket. I think it gets a bad rap. A nice thick slice of Spam fried up in a pan makes a good sandwich.
Anyway, these articles tell me to sell my work, but don’t be intrusive; be myself but don’t be rude or controversial; have something to say, but not too much to say; retweet things you like but don’t retweet everything, blah blah blah.
Since there is no consensus I’m just going to Tweet whatever I feel like and if one of my cult of 33 followers wants to unfollow, so be it. If you’re interested in following me on the unmitigated disaster that is my Twitter account, the address is: @your_screams
I don’t understand Twitter: Never have, probably never will. But I kept reading that if you’re a writer you have to be on Twitter so I joined. It’s been a few months now and I still have no idea what I’m doing. At most I’ve sent maybe 3 tweets in a day. Some of the people I’m following send 3 every femtosecond. I’ve gone 5 or 6 days without even logging on to Twitter.
The biggest confusion is how I’m supposed to use it as a writer. Recently I’ve read several articles about what I should and shouldn’t do. Big help they were as they all contradicted each other.
One tells me to use Twitter to send out links to my book, website, whatever. Others say, “Well you can do that in a minimal way, once in a while.” Yet another article said “NEVER! Never use Twitter to spam your followers with links and sales pitches! NEVER!”
As an aside, I like the Spam you buy at the supermarket. I think it gets a bad rap. A nice thick slice of Spam fried up in a pan makes a good sandwich.
Anyway, these articles tell me to sell my work, but don’t be intrusive; be myself but don’t be rude or controversial; have something to say, but not too much to say; retweet things you like but don’t retweet everything, blah blah blah.
Since there is no consensus I’m just going to Tweet whatever I feel like and if one of my cult of 33 followers wants to unfollow, so be it. If you’re interested in following me on the unmitigated disaster that is my Twitter account, the address is: @your_screams
