Whether I 'Really' Qualify as a ''Writer'' (in Twitter's ''Writing Community'') or Not, the Best I Can Do is FIX THINGS
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
November 3, 2022 12:49pm CST
I mean, I WRITE. But many of the writers in the Writing Community 'write for television,' have manuscripts published, books in print, queries to submit to publishers, works-in-progress.
The closest to 'something published' that I have (beside a scattering of 'amateur' (well, kinda professional; if you consider 'shared revenue' the same as "getting paid to write") blogs, these posts on myLot, and comments on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace (if you can dig up anything I might've written there)) is 'some letters I wrote to the Oklahoma Gazette.'
But I DO notice a couple things used by the Twitter Writing-Community that could use a little tuning up---or maybe I just need to understand them better. Specifically, their #WritersLift & what they call the Pin-for-Pin.
With the 'Pin-for-Pin,' the idea is that 'one of the writers tweets "Pin-for-Pin" (often using the "Pin"-logo instead of the word, and sometimes "4" instead of 'for'); you see that, go to theiir profile, "retweet" their "pinned" tweet (the tweet they told Twitter to keep at the top of their Tweet-list), and comment on the request to say that you've retweeted their pin; and they go to your profile & retweet YOUR pin."
(Most Twitter-Writers 'pin' a link to their Amazon-page or their latest book or article, but lately most of the pin-for-pin's I've seen have been for craft-sales or 'teachers begging for school-supplies.)
I 'fix' the pin-for-pin's by copying the original request & then "QUOTE tweet"-ing the requester's pin, where I paste the original request above it! (see the picture)
The #WritersLift (I've mentioned it before): A writer will announce that they're 'doing a #WritersLift' and encourage fellow writers to 'share their links' there, and say that they'll then retweet any links that look interesting.
I 'fix' this by 'quote tweeting' the #WritersLift announcement and posting my link (usually to my crypto-mining network) in THAT Tweet, before *I* go down the list in that announcement's comments and quote-tweet any comments that *I* think look interesting (tagging each of the QTs with #WritersLiftDoneRIGHT or some-such ).
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@ihasaquestion (8275)
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4 Nov 22
So, most posts with that tagline will get promotion/mentions.
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@Dreamerby (5846)
• Calcutta, India
9 Nov 22
Well I guess I don't use twitter much. But yes I love writing too and that's why I am here...
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@porwest (92543)
• United States
31 Jan 23
I guess I could see the point of getting a bit more exposure. But I think, at the end of the day, most people don't pay attention to simple "promotions." If something is worth seeing eventually, it will speak for itself and not need all the extra help.
Just depends. But I applaud the idea even though I don't think it makes much of a difference.