Comments on: Tweet! Tweet! Let a little bird tell people about your bookstore

By: Lindsay @ writing

Lindsay @ writing — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:57:35 +0000

I’m kind of a classic link-building, SEO gal and tend to ignore social media or do very little with it (I’m afraid of it becoming a huge time sink more than anything), but I keep meaning to pay more attention.

Thanks for the thorough Twitter post. I’ll have to print this out and spend some time going through it in more depth.

By: prying1

prying1 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:01:27 +0000

I joined twitter when it became obvious that it is here to stay and that if I did not sign up some unscrupulous person might take my internet name, prying1, and abuse it. I do hang around some social websites that have been known to attract trolls. Some of them are just meanspirited.

I would suggest that booksellers get on board asap to at least reserve their branded name.

That said I still don’t quite get it and only occasionally use it. Usually when someone reminds me of it. (Like you have done so here.)

Sorry Bruce for suggesting this since it will mean more work and take you away from your reading time. Perhaps The Bookshop Blog could have a little spot for us to put our Twitter names so we can link to one another. They would not necessarily have to link to our accounts. Just be available for us to see who is who in the ever loving book world.

By: Ryan@Bellingham seo

Ryan@Bellingham seo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:12:06 +0000

When you started out by saying that Twitter was a “bastard child” I wasn’t quite sure where you were going with this post, but you really brought it around. I have been a Twitter member for a year now and it sounds as though you have a pretty good grasp of how it all works.

I didn’t understand entirely how the hashtags worked. I understood that using the “#” tag would put your post into a group, but I didn’t realize that you had to follow @hashtags, to get them indexed.

By: Nora O'Neill

Nora O'Neill — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:56:12 +0000

I find Twitter is fun to use as you can do that while doing other things like pricing. While you wait for the engine to pull up prices you can run Twitter in background. So that little 30 second snippet of time while you way for AddAll to spit out a search, you can do quick scan of Twitter for any relevant chatter.

By: Debra

Debra — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:07:07 +0000

Great post about Twitter. I had mentioned it on one of the booksellers forums a while back and most of the comments I received was “it is a waste of time”. But I joined anyway and I really enjoy it. I tweet about my book business, about my craft blog and I have met others tweeters from Saskatchewan and tweeters from the US and Overseas.

By: Primož

Primož — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:30:39 +0000

I find myself to a bit behind of time. I’ve heard about twitter quite some time ago, but I never felt about it to be something that important and necessary for promotion. About a short consideration I decided to give it a try and see for myself if all the benefits people talk about are true.