TWITTER S E Thomas Alaska Professional Communicators Twitter

TWITTER S E Thomas Alaska Professional Communicators

Twitter basics • It’s free! • Excellent tool to promote your organization, projects or novels • To start, you need an e-mail address • Once you are in, add your biography, photograph and background • TW has generic backgrounds to choose from

My bio • Sean E Thomas • @Alaskan. Novelist • Award winning mysteries~Ret~Vet~Dvrsty~CG Aux~Boater~BA/grad chem~ UI~DEOMI (DRRI) grad~NFPW~PNWA~Sin. C~dad~grandpa~ Rparker~Trek~NCIS~Castle~AL 7 BG

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General info on Alaska Novelist • • • 33. 3 K (33, 305) followers 34. 6 K following 68. 8 tweets 15. 1 Likes My Twitter site helps me sell 150 -500 novels per quarter

Twitter rules Rule 1: A tweet is only 140 characters to include hot links How do you get followers? • You have to follow to be followed • You have to tweet 2 -3 times a day • Your tweets must be interesting

Twitter rules (continued) • You can follow up to 2, 000, but you can’t follow more until you have 2, 000 followers • You’re allowed to follow 40 -50 a day (TW will cut you off if more) • Don’t churn your account (follow and delete a lot) TW will put you in “Twitter prison”- deactivate your account

Twitter rules (continued) • After 10 -12 K followers, people will find you!

Watch out who follows you!

Watch out who follows you (Continued) • Porn sites • Twitter product sellers • Add-ons to twitter • Don’t buy followers ~ It’s a scam ~ They disappear

My Tweets • Quotes from famous authors on writing (2 -3) • Articles on writing with hot links • Information on writers conferences • Science articles • History articles (Smithsonian) • Articles on Alaska • Bad cops • Native American news

Examples • Good afternoon from writer and novelist in Eagle River, Alaska with gray skies, a light dusting of snow and -2 F. . . It's cccccolddddddd

Examples (Continued) • Thanks new followers • Award Winning/5 -star mysteries • Amazon: http: //www. amazon. com/Sean-E. Thomas/e/B 0055 FFD 3 E/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 • FB: https: //www. facebook. com/Alaskan. Author Sean. EThomas • Website: http: //www. seanethomas. com/ (This is 140 characters)

More tweets • “Pencils racing across paper, a sound I like. " ― Eileen Granfors • “There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts. ” ― Susan Elaine Jenkins • Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. ― W. Somerset Maugham

More tweets • New material to revolutionize water proofing https: //www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2016/09 • Austria and Turkey are butting heads over an archaeological dig http: //www. smithsonianmag. com/smartnews/austria-and-turkey-are-butting-heads-overarchaeological-dig-180960379/? no-ist • Photographs and jokes

Retweets • You Retweeted • Susan Barton@ebookreviewgal 6 h 6 hours ago • The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to #write about it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

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