The Word Cloud

5 Comments

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  by Weens 2 years ago

  I registered on Twitter, I couldn't make head nor tails of it, so gave it up as a bad job. It takes me all my time to keep up with friends on Facebook and here, I don't need any further contact. However, if you are trying to push a book, then I suppose it is different. If you aren't getting any hits on your current blog, why do you think Twitter will be different? (I'm not being sarcastic, it is a genuine question)
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  by ShaunBerge 2 years ago

  Weens - Twitter is a lot easier for people to start 'following' you. As soon as you click the follow button you'll see their updates come up on your page. So it's a simplicity thing more than anything. And i think the thing that attracts people is the brevity of the posts (140 character limit to each) so if you go on you know you won't be going through dense paragraphs of any kind.
  
  I'd say use your real name, since if you start work under another pseudonym you'll not have to change the tweet thing. Although a good tool on the site is that you can change your name when you want so you could start with your pseudonym and later change it. So the main thing would be just to start using the site and then perhaps change certain settings later on.
  
  Oh, and another thing (I feel like I'm trying to sell it to you) is that if you use a web browser like Firefox, you can download Echofon, which is a little speech mark icon that stays at the bottom right of your browser and acts as a shortcut to writing and reading tweets. It's all about saving time and making things simple, really.
  
  So buy twitter now, only £9.99!
  (Subject to availability)
  
  :)
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  by dneves 2 years ago

  I would use the name that you've used most often and stick to it. I would also advertise on Facebook and MySpace, and also read excerpts on youtube, using the same name.
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  by mike 2 years ago

  Dear Steve,
  A proliferation of pseudonyms might be a problem. It would be better to stick to the one.
  Tweeting seems to be associated with Stephen Fry and his tweet seem to exist outside the tweet site. I was interested in the IPAD and Stephen Fry has seen, touched and given his blessing! I know of no other tweeter.
  I don't ascribe to any of these sites, apart from 'Word Cloud; but people at work only use Facebook to keep in touch with their friends. There are a few artists at work but their web-sites are produced individually. My brother runs a website from America and i put stuff on that but it only really has a family audience.
  Getting your travel book published by an orthodox publisher might still be the best option. Have you tried Vanguard Press?
  A distant relation contacted me over Chistmas and informed me that a friend of hers had recently had a book published. I ordered it for the library, read it yesterday and quite enjoyed it. It is a crime caper in which the Turin Shroud is stolen to extract DNA. But i doubt if the book is self-published' It is difficult to tell from the site.
  Mike
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  by SteveF 2 years ago

  Mine isn't a travel book, but I've always questioned the merits of Twittering. I'm not sure how twittering about an unfinished book will sell it, and I doubt it would find me a publisher.