From my original blog post at ThrillersRus 6/30/11
The power of twitter
I published my thriller, The Ninth District, on kindle and nook a couple of weeks ago. As soon as it was available, I put out a tweet to tell the twitterverse that I'd published it along with a link on where to buy it. I sent out the initial tweet at to my 1300 followers. Within minutes it was retweeted by 6 of my twitter friends and the message was out to another 5,000 people.
I have family and some friends and some of them know how to read and actually like to read. I put out the same message to some of them in email or on the phone. But it was over a week, and they may have told some of their friends, but I don't know it they did or not.
There is no way I can reach as many people who are interested in writing and reading in such a short amount of time as I was able to do with twitter.
1 tweet to 1300 followers, 6 retweets in minutes to 5,000 followers. I like Twitter.
The power of groups
Groups of people form together around a common purpose or interest. They develop a camaraderie. Writers commiserate about the writing process, roadblocks and rejections. They celebrate a great review, a new release and provide companionship while a writer is alone trying to get the words on the page.
One group I've joined and support is the Independent Author Network, which goes by the hash tag #IAN1. This is a group of independent multi-genre published authors committed to supporting each other in the area of writing and marketing and publicity using social media.
Here's the power of groups. (Don't let the numbers scare you) There are 180 IAN members. They have a combined total of 225,000 followers. If we're committed to retweeting each other's tweets we can get a single tweet out to 192,600 unique followers and if they retweet it, even more. Like waves in a pool it just keeps spreading out until it peters out.
Now, not everyone sees your tweet or retweets it, so it doesn't get that big, but with a group it gets a lot bigger, a lot faster then it could on its own.
There are a couple of other groups out there I follow as well; #MyWana and #pubwrite. Find one that feels right, participate in the discussion and support the group and you will feel the power of the group.
There is no way I can reach as many people who are interested in writing and reading in such a short amount of time as I was able to do with twitter.
I published my thriller, The Ninth District, on kindle and nook a couple of weeks ago. As soon as it was available, I put out a tweet to tell the twitterverse that I'd published it along with a link on where to buy it. I sent out the initial tweet at to my 1300 followers. Within minutes it was retweeted by 6 of my twitter friends and the message was out to another 5,000 people.
I have family and some friends and some of them know how to read and actually like to read. I put out the same message to some of them in email or on the phone. But it was over a week, and they may have told some of their friends, but I don't know it they did or not.
There is no way I can reach as many people who are interested in writing and reading in such a short amount of time as I was able to do with twitter.
1 tweet to 1300 followers, 6 retweets in minutes to 5,000 followers. I like Twitter.
The power of groups
Groups of people form together around a common purpose or interest. They develop a camaraderie. Writers commiserate about the writing process, roadblocks and rejections. They celebrate a great review, a new release and provide companionship while a writer is alone trying to get the words on the page.
One group I've joined and support is the Independent Author Network, which goes by the hash tag #IAN1. This is a group of independent multi-genre published authors committed to supporting each other in the area of writing and marketing and publicity using social media.
Here's the power of groups. (Don't let the numbers scare you) There are 180 IAN members. They have a combined total of 225,000 followers. If we're committed to retweeting each other's tweets we can get a single tweet out to 192,600 unique followers and if they retweet it, even more. Like waves in a pool it just keeps spreading out until it peters out.
Now, not everyone sees your tweet or retweets it, so it doesn't get that big, but with a group it gets a lot bigger, a lot faster then it could on its own.
There are a couple of other groups out there I follow as well; #MyWana and #pubwrite. Find one that feels right, participate in the discussion and support the group and you will feel the power of the group.
There is no way I can reach as many people who are interested in writing and reading in such a short amount of time as I was able to do with twitter.
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