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DaringNovelist 05-23-2010 10:32 PM

Indie Authors on Twitter
 
Over on the Kindle boards, somebody started a thread for people to exchange their twitter ids. It seemed like an interesting idea to me, so I'm going to ask here.

Give us a link to your twitter account, and maybe an idea of the kind of things you Tweet, and the kind of Tweeters you follow.

Here's mine: http://twitter.com/camillelaguire
I tend to tweet when I post progress updates from my blog, and sometimes book related news or information. (Rarely tweet more than twice a day.)

And to jump start this: I will tweet Free Smashwords coupons for both of my books as soon as I get to 100 followers! Such a deal!

Camille

Shayne Parkinson 05-23-2010 10:45 PM

Nice idea, Camille!

Me: http://twitter.com/ShayneParkinson

I tweet about random topics :) Sometimes writing-related, sometimes not. The weather, movies, I've seen, the state of the compost heap...

dlmartin6 05-24-2010 09:37 AM

I saw the thread over at the Kindleboards as well. Here's mine:



I don't tweet often - seems kind of a waste of time with only a few followers. With so many other forums and social media tasks to keep up with, this is one that I let side. I suppose if I got more followers, it may be interesting.

Deb
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/debralmartin

lmpreston 05-25-2010 09:04 AM

I tweet often. The best fun I have is to do writer's tweet chats #amwriting #wip #yalitchat (wed. 8pm) #kidlit #scribechat

here is mine

http://twitter.com/LM_Preston

dlmartin6 05-25-2010 11:19 AM

I'm fairly new to twitter. Do you put the #amwriting tag at the end of your tweets if you want to get a wider distribution?

Thanks,

Deb

DaringNovelist 05-26-2010 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dlmartin6 (Post 926552)
I'm fairly new to twitter. Do you put the #amwriting tag at the end of your tweets if you want to get a wider distribution?
Thanks,
Deb

Tags like #amwriting can appear anywhere in the tweet. Some people embed the tags into their message to save letters. (i.e. they might post "I #amwriting my novel today.") I usually put it at the end.

People who want to read and follow the posts with that hashtag can click on the tag in any message that has it, or do a search on it.

neilmarr 05-27-2010 07:47 AM

You'll find me at Twitter on http://twitter.com/neilmarr . Limit myself to a max one tweet a day -- always book or ebook related. I'm following more (all authors or publishing houses) than follow me. Cheers. Neil

NickSpalding 05-27-2010 08:49 AM

You can follow me at http://twitter.com/Spalding_Author if you like. I tend to tweet when inspiration strikes...

dlmartin6 05-27-2010 03:03 PM

I've started to tweet more too here: http://twitter.com/dlmartin6 Now that I'm doing the author interviews over at my blog, I want to announce it every time a new one goes up. Today's author: David McAfee.

Annetteg 05-28-2010 11:02 AM

I'm a very intermittent tweeter, or is that twitter? It's mostly random stuff about books/movies I've seen read and news of my own books etc.

I'm at http://twitter.com/havyn

(Havyn is character from one of my books, so not as random a name as it seems, LOL!)

take care,
Annette

sbaum4853 05-31-2010 06:12 PM

I tweet about once a day on whatever I think my followers might find interesting.

http://twitter.com/sbaum4853

DaringNovelist 05-31-2010 07:08 PM

BTW, I've reached my 100 followers, and I'm now giving away a lot of books. I screwed up when I posted the coupons - I should have put some hashtags in there. (I may repost them, simply because people miss individual tweets a lot.)

jseay 05-31-2010 11:11 PM

I think this is a great idea. I tweet links to articles about the ebook revolution. I also tweet Bible verses that I come across that speak to my spirit. Below is a link to my Twitter profile.

http://Twitter.com/jayeseay

lmpreston 06-04-2010 05:27 PM

I'm a twitter addict and twitter daily as well as attend twitter chats 3 times a week.

plumboz 06-04-2010 09:22 PM

Just started up again with Twitter. Haven't really established a "theme" yet. Probably announcements about current book and projects and observations about Life and Whatnot.

plumboz on Twitter


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