Pointless Announcements

That does, yes, thank you.

No one got me the Seahawks t-shirt I asked for for Christmas. They really don't sell Seahawks gear here--it's all Beavers, all the time (not a bad thing). I'll have to wear my Leafs shirt today and pretend. At least it's blue. I think people don't take me seriously when I ask for sports gear that ISN'T Oregon State (except for my husband; he knows the truth).

I think it will be a fun day, either way. I'm making pizza.

 

I'd send you some, if you weren't so far away

 

I am glad to have a Monday where there are no meetings and I don't have to do anything.

 

I almost pity the poor kid who comes to my door to try to sell me those horribly freezer burnt steaks with no marbling out of the freezer in the back of his truck.


Almost.

 

WTF, @Fremen. WTF. This is Pointless Announcements. Whatever that is, I'm pretty sure it's not pointless.

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In other news, I just spent twenty minutes laughing at comedic doujinshi. That was fun. My stomach hurts.

 

Thanks for the tips, but I think I have most of the bases covered. I've read a few books on Twitter, and more than my fair share of online articles. My relatively low number of followers is mostly because I have only been active more recently, and it really also has to do with the fact that I focus on my career-related stuff, which isn't all that exciting as far as what goes on in social media. I'm also relatively boring as far as editors go too, so my follow count isn't all that bad, considering.

I also try to avoid getting involved with the trend of "I follow you; you follow me," where you have people with 16,xxx followers and, "coincidentally," they are following 16,xxx. Most of these types I've seen post dozens of times a day, and their content is mostly crap, half or more of which is self-promotional. I only tend to follow people who are somehow connected to the kinds of things I do, or are at least interesting.

I hope to become a bit more exciting by interacting with others more and injecting more personal stuff/opinions into my tweets, as well as more about what I'm doing (rather than what others are doing), but for now I'm being pretty conservative as I figure out the direction I want to go.

It's not all bad. I have a crapload of writers of all stripes following me, including two preeminent personal finance columnists. I think if I improve my tweets, expanding my reach will go relatively well.

Until then.... I broke 300!

 

I use similar tactics. I have less than 100 followers, but what I share on Twitter is very niche. Not a lot of it is personal--it is always related to food or beer/wine/cocktails, for the most part, and sports to some extent. My goal is to promote stuff going on around my locale for the craft beer, wine, and cider industries, and I have actually been able to make some good connections using Twitter with people in those industries, which is cool. A good chunk of those less than 100 followers are local craft brewers, and that's much more important to me.