To tweet or not to tweet?

Robert Clear · Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:20 am

That is the question.

Or, more specifically: should I join Twitter in order to promote my book?

If any other authors here have taken the plunge I'd love to hear about your experiences, and whether it's all been worthwhile.

All the best
Robert
www.the-cambridge-list.blogspot.com

LPOBryan · Sun May 01, 2011 12:49 am

Hi,

I have been on Twitter for over a year and I think it's great. I have accumulated a good number of followers by investing about an hour a week following others. Many will follow you back.

I got over 40 personal messages of support when I announced I was offered a contract on Twitter. It felt great!

So I'm all for it.

Laurence
@lpobryan

Gary Val Tenuta · Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:12 pm

I don't know how much it helps but, in my opinion, it can't hurt.

You know what they say (whoever "they" are :wink:

), Exposure, Exposure, Exposure. Can't have enough exposure.

I've been tweeting about my books for about 3 years. I think it's important to tweet other things besides just your book so your followers don't get bored with you :yawn:

or feel like they're being relentlessly bombarded by your book tweets. :bash:

There are some writers on Facebook groups (like Author Central) who have organized "tweet fests" where they all list the tweets they'd like the others in the group to tweet for them. It's a pretty cool idea because some of those people already have many hundreds of followers who will see those tweets. It can mean that your tweets could be seen by many thousands of other Twitterheads. Twitterites? Twitterphiles? Whatever. :lol:

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