Exactly my point: Twitter is useless.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:11 PM, PT <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am late to the party wheeeeee > > I am also late to the whole twitter thing. I knew how useful it is, but > I never took the time to get into it. > > I created a twitter account for my book projects. I intended to just > use it to provide status updates on my progress and toss out some > tidbits now and then .. get my name out there. Then I thought, "How > could this be useful for someone besides me, while helping me at the > same time?" So, I am also updating my feeds with progress on the > loooong tedious process of getting published and sharing any wisdom > gained along the way. > > Within 2 days, 3 publishers and 2 agents started following me, including > Penguin Books. Now I have somewhat of a direct line to these people and > they can see what I am doing. Like Ras said, the level of access is > unprecedented. > > I also started following other authors, like Neil Gaimen. He is pretty > active. Then there are the publishers and agents I started following. I > am getting some personal insight into an industry I know almost nothing > about just by watching what these people say and how they think. This > is a big thing, as Erika pointed out. For example, I found out there is > a general consensus that if your book opens with some "dark and stormy > night" scene, or you use the first chapter to introduce all of the > characters, in the trash it goes. Some feeds also constantly throw out > tips and topics, and information about seminars and other author related > events, some local to me. It is so much easier having it dumped on me > than weeding through Google searches to find it. > > I am also loosely affiliated with an online game company. The artists > and developers are constantly tweeting about what they are working on > and giving an almost real time status on things when problems arise. > The tweets about what is coming and the teasers they put out keep the > players excited. Excited players spend money. Letting the players know > what is going on when technical problems pop up prevents pissed-off > players. People will tolerate a lot when they are kept informed. > Non-pissed-off players don't take their money elsewhere. They also > don't spam the forums and harass us in-game mods. A 30 second tweet by > one person saves hours of work for one or more others. > > Twitter is like any other tool or technology; It's value depends on how > you use it. > > Oh! Also, how many of us here get news or topics we might not have > otherwise known about? How much do we benefit from having personal > opinions attached to that? Twitter is kind of like a CF-Community > digest, digest. > > That was longer than I planned. Now to lurk until I am called forth > once more. > > On 4/4/2011 1:00 PM, G Money wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Tony Weeg<[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> I'd love to hear why. I really would. > >> > > > > I dunno....I'm just anti-social I guess. > > > > Other people just don't hold much interest for me......which is probably > why > > I don't understand the fascination with reality TV...or even cell phones. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335962 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
