The point of Twitter
I’m not a fast adapter of new technology. It took me several years after everyone else to get a mobile phone, and I used to get a very snooty look from the sales assistants as I insisted I wanted one that just – you know – made calls.
Twitter was something I just didn’t get. It seemed to be the cyber version of the annoying guy on the train with the mobile phone. ‘I’m ON THE TRAIN’ -LOL – in 140 characters or less. People were updating their every move, a godsend for the alert stalker, but pretty tedious for the rest of us.
I grudgingly went over to have a look when I noticed friends and publishing insiders were on there, thinking there must be something I was missing.
There was. The most interesting tweets are still about location, but interior locations. I am getting glimpses inside a novelist’s thoughts as they work on their next book, an agent’s musings on what’s out there, a publisher’s focus on what’s coming out that week.
If you’re not already on twitter, go and have a look and see if there’s anything for you. And feel free to follow me – @BookAnalyst – and let me know you’re there.
June 14, 2011
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