Twitter Expert? Hardly!
I'm going to state right up front...I am no Twitter expert. I will say, however, having just recently come to finally understand the concept of how Twitter works AND how other people use Twitter, I'm able to grasp the concept of how it can help me communicate with readers. With that said, if anyone else has anything they can add or correct me on, please leave comments. We can all be better at using this amazing social networking venue if we all pitch in.
Since I'm a fiction author, I'll be sharing this information from the perspective of novels and that portion of the publishing industry, so this article is probably more geared toward the fiction author who wants to learn how to use Twitter to get the word out about their novels, but the concepts covered here can be applied to almost anything, so read on. This article is long, but covers the following topics (click topic to go straight to it, BUT click the MORE button below if you're not in the actual article.):
- The Purpose of Twitter
- How to Use Twitter - The #Hashtag
- Hashtags for Author, Readers, Writing and Publishing
- Leveraging Mentions and Twitter Names
- How to Run a Twitter Campaign (which mentions some Twitter Clients that make using Twitter easier)
