twitspammers

[julesjones]

I'm seriously considering unfollowing @litopia on Twitter, simply because of the number of spam-followers it seems to attract to my account. I'm regularly followed by people who have nothing in common with me but @litopia, but who do seem to have a book to pimp. Apparently people who follow @litopia *must* be interested in anyone who is an author with a book to sell.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong with my marketing. What I should be doing is following any author I can find on Twitter, regardless of their genre, in the hope that they and their followers will run out and buy my own books...

ETA: apparently it's Spam-follow Saturday -- just had the third one of the morning.

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[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Obviously Lesley's been looking at LJ - always signs me out...

Anyway, non-anonymously this time: the guy who runs it used to be my agent (between 2004 and 2007) - but never actually bothered representing me to anyone, cos he was far more interested in spending his time being the great Litopia oracle, and doing ever more podcasts and lectures...

Which is why I don't have an agent now, nor bother with sites for writers

[julesjones]

Interesting -- LJ has hidden your initial anon comment. Haven't seen that before, although it's a sensible thing to do if they can pull off the coding to recognise "oops, posted anonymously" reposts.

Don't think I've ever looked at the Litopia parent website other than to see what it was. There were some vaguely interesting tweets when I first started following the twitter feed (from "people you follow also follow this", IIRC), which is why I followed it in the first place, but I can't remember having followed a link from there for months.

Prior to that I hadn't even heard of it, which shows you how much attention I pay outside my own little social network circle.