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By: Twitter Hash Tag Video « Writing and Illustrating

Twitter Hash Tag Video « Writing and Illustrating — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:46:04 +0000

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By: Phil Groom

Phil Groom — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:16:16 +0000

Thanks. Especially like the Mari Smith vid: have used it in my latest post, The Lost Symbol and the Lost Hashtag #LBF09 #LBF. PS: Note for Janet: gladrags? They're the clothes that booksellers like me wear on our days off.

By: Janet

Janet — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:56:17 +0000

I still don’t know what gladrags are.

By: roger

roger — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:07:35 +0000

Very interesting article. I love the Julie MeMeson tweets, and I’ve also been following Fred Goodwin. I also love RealRaskolnikov, which purports to be the tweets of Raskolonikov from Crime and Punishment. My own experiment on twitter is to serialise my 2007 novel, A Gentle Axe (Faber). I think the reading experience is totally different to reading an extended piece of text, for example a section of a novel. The sentences stand on their own and take on a sort of isolated mystique. As a writer I am interested in the communicative possibilities of twitter and it seemed natural to put some of my own content out through it. It’s here http://twitter.com/rnmorris by the way. I’d be very interested to hear any feedback.

By: Jon Reed

Jon Reed — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:23:36 +0000

Hi Alexis, there are a few ways to find people:

1. If you know the name of an author you want to follow, perhaps in your genre, and want to find out if they’re on Twitter, use the People Finder.
2. There’s also a new feature that suggests people to follow – useful when you’re already following people.
3. Or you can do a keyword search at http://search.twitter.com for, say, writer, author, or for whatever your genre is.
4. Finally, look out for #followfriday – a little game Twitterers play on a Friday, where they simply nominate interesting people to follow.

Good luck with your book – and look forward to your tweets!

By: Alexis

Alexis — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:33:32 +0000

Great post. Re: online support group… Can you suggest writers to follow, or a way to find them? I’m writing a book, new to Twitter, and am already using it as my virtual water cooler.

Thanks!