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Originally Posted by taosaur
This is exactly how a lot of writers and readers use Twitter. It's not going to be a perfect fit for every author and their audience, but the best answer to your question in present society and technology is Twitter. It's very low stakes for your readers to follow you, you're just lightly reminding them you exist and what you're doing every so often (unless you're exceptionally good or exceptionally bad at it), and it's easy for people to share that reminder elsewhere. It's a rare reader who is going to an author's personal website and looking for updates without getting pushed there from a social media or news platform, and often what they saw on that platform was a linked tweet.
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Different platforms have different strengths and weaknesses. Twitter, with it's limited number of characters, might be good for pinging a customer base when a new book is out, but likely isn't a good place for someone who was told about an author by a friend and is trying to find out what books that author might have and which book to start with. It could be that twitter and facebook are a good substitute for email lists, but in this age of google, neither is a replacement for a good, up to date website. My experience with facebook is that it's unreliable, perhaps twitter is different.