Okay readers – I’m asking for help. Of course, if you plan to help you will have to respond to this column. PLEASE be assured that your name, handle, email address, shoe size and any other information will never, NOT EVER, be disclosed. Yea, I know, I seldom believe that either but it’s true with this blog.
Twitter. What in the bloody %&^% is the deal. When I was publishing my first children’s book the publishing company suggested I establish a twitter account. So, I ‘hired’ a trusted relative (e.g. bribed with homemade cookies and specialty coffee drinks) to establish the account. Then, all I had to do was be a twit and make comments and/or read others’ musings. We limited the account ‘follows’ to libraries and writers groups in order to control the mass of idiocy that might otherwise come aboard.
I have tweeted a few times, less that five at my last count. After tweeting – usually the next day – I sign on to see reactions, answers to questions I posed and/or suggestions. Don’t know how many hundreds or thousands wound up in my account. Can’t tell if any of them relate to my tweet. Really don’t know if any of them responded with information related to my ‘tweet’. So I make a decision about the tweets (read that as “ I AIN’T GONNA PAGE THROUGH UNENDING TWEETS OF 116 CHARACTERS OR SO TO FIND OUT”).
Some might have the tweeters account info but none – NONE – that I found had a date or time on them. Should I scroll up? Or down? Am I looking at the new ones? Or the old ones? In the long run it becomes a hunt with no promise of treasure. So, I might tweet once in a while but I will do so with no expectations. I won’t spend 17 ½ hours reading tweets to see if any are relevant. I won’t page up or page down wondering which direction is most recent.
Got any ideas? Respond to this blog. And if you know of any legitimate, well-established, reputable publishers or writer’s agents out there reading this, They can contact me through Archway Publishing, Inc.