I agree it does take time to build followers! I also have my FaceBook personal, I just started my blog of my writings and am looking to build it. It is best to write for the reader and I try to follow that in my work. I hope the best for your site! Keep up the good work!

It takes several interations for an idea to sink in, and I think you did that here.

Now, the question will be to extrapolate that into areas outside writing. By that, I mean using hashtags to find readers interested in the types of books I write. Worthy of exploration.

Thanks for the recommended blogs, too. I’ve added some of those to my reader.

Bill, stuff can get discovered on twitter, but the only way I can find it is to look it up by hashtags. Hashtags are the key to hitting your desired audience with your tweets, and it also gives you a core group of “tweeps” who know what YOU tweet about.

Tags I frequently use are #Christfic and #ACFW for Christian writers, #momswrite, #amwriting, #pubtip, #writetip, and #mywana for writing tips that go for CBA or ABA.

Hope this helps somewhat! I’ve found twitter to be the single most important way to get those search engines popping up with your name when you Google it. Platform-building, one tweet at a time….

One thing I keep hearing, Andrew, is to focus on just one form of social media at a time. Learn what you can about it–how to use it and how not to use it–and then after you feel comfortable with that, move on to the next one. I love blogging; have added Facebook (though not for promotion so much) and am just re-starting my Twitter page which is mostly for readers/writers of suspense. I think Twitter (from what I understand) helps to draw people to your blog/website and eventually maybe your books. It can be confusing though, I’m certainly no expert (yet!).

Some have said if you can’t do it all, choose a couple of social media things you can do. Yet, at times I wonder if the tide is all happening at twitter?

Makes sense! 🙂 My blog is geared toward readers rather than writers too. 🙂 Happy blogging!

Andrew: think about “Tweetable” as being “something worth tweeting.” It was actually just added to the OED!

Twitter is a well-built platform in that it tends to makes sense after using it for very little time, as long as you try to get in there every day.

Oxford defines tweetable as “suitable for sharing on the social media site Twitter.”

Hi Jeanne,
Yes, it definitely does take time to build up readership. My blog is literally a week old so I have no illusions that I’m going to have a million readers right away. 🙂

As for Facebook: I will eventually start sharing some things on there, because I’m “friends” with a bunch of people from grad school and other writers. There’s a creative element to my blog too that non-writers might enjoy. I just don’t want to inundate my news feed with things like that right away.