Don’t be overly self-promotional.<\/strong> Instead, offer links to information that you think your followers (or the people you want to follow you) will find helpful. Make 80 percent of your tweets helpful or interesting information and 20 percent related specifically to your book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFinally, manage your expectations about Twitter. I find it more valuable for professional development than for anything else. I learn a great deal from the links to articles and blog posts that people I follow share. I’m not sure I could stay current on the ever-changing book industry without it.<\/p>\n
If you go into it expecting to see instant sales, you’ll be disappointed. But if you use it to connect with people you can learn from, you’ll be more than satisifed.<\/p>\n
What questions do you have about Twitter basics that aren’t answered at any of the links offered above?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judging by the e-mail I receive, there are a lot of authors who want to start using Twitter but don’t quite know how to get started.<\/p>\n
So . . . if you’re up and running on Twitter, move along, move along. There’s nothing for you to see here.<\/p>\n
If you could benefit from a short course on Twitter basics, keep reading.<\/p>\n
Resources for getting started<\/b><\/h3>\n
I’m posting this article as a resource that I can send people to in the future, as I get requests for information and help. \u00a0(And please, if you know someone who’s struggling with the Twitter set-up process, send them the link to this article.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12],"tags":[418,374],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tools","tag-mashable","tag-twitter"],"yoast_head":"\n
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