Tweets - what’s good and what’s not
It seems like Twitter has supplanted blogs (to my sorrow, I like blogging quite a bit). And for all I know maybe Tumblr and Pinterest are the cool things now.
I don't have either of those, although I do have a GoodReads account, a Facebook, and a FB author page. And a Twitter account, @aprilhenrybooks. If it weren't for Twitter, I wouldn't have found out some most excellent news a couple of nights ago. I'm waiting for more official confirmation, but until then, here's an article I just read about Twitter.
The Harvard Business Review looked at what makes for a good tweet.
Good:
- Random thought
- Self promo
- Question
- Info
Not so good:
- Opinion/complaint
- What I’m doing
- Presence maintenance
- Conversation
Read more about what works best with Twitter here.
I don't have either of those, although I do have a GoodReads account, a Facebook, and a FB author page. And a Twitter account, @aprilhenrybooks. If it weren't for Twitter, I wouldn't have found out some most excellent news a couple of nights ago. I'm waiting for more official confirmation, but until then, here's an article I just read about Twitter.
The Harvard Business Review looked at what makes for a good tweet.
Good:
- Random thought
- Self promo
- Question
- Info
Not so good:
- Opinion/complaint
- What I’m doing
- Presence maintenance
- Conversation
Read more about what works best with Twitter here.
On another awesome note: My school has stacks of Girl Stolen for the 8th grade literacy unit! (as library assistant, I got to catalog them all. Yay, you! :-)
I recently attended the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, for humour writers. Humour writers are still blogging up a storm, and some of them are getting book deals because of them.
Twitter and blogging serve different purposes. Twitter is fine for promotion and those other uses described in the link. Blogging is a way to use your writing voice, form relationships, and find an audience.