It really is. You do either love it or you hate it. I like Marmite and luckily I like Twitter too.
It’s easier to send a tweet to someone than it is to send an email. Having a 140 character limit helps in that you really have to boil things down.
For me Twitter a great way to chat, find new friends and contacts plus you get to find out some great pieces of information. One thing you can do it ReTweet or RT making viral messaging simple and scarily fast in some cases.
Here is a selection of interesting information and links that I’ve RT recently:
- RT @sfsignal: PS Publishing is offering a Free Excerpt of their Tim Powers biography, Secret Histories: http://tinyurl.com/kuz9fo
- RT @Guardian_Books: Books news: Geoff Dyer wins Wodehouse prize for comic fiction http://bit.ly/ND0Ug
- RT @BookRambler: RT @PD_Smith: Seamus Heaney talks abt his latest poems & being Prof of Poetry at Oxford @r4today http://bit.ly/1159FE
- RT @kwohlrob: Dumb ass publishing move of the day: Avon public relations gets into pissing match with said public: http://tinyurl.com/njfm4y
- RT @BookRambler: RT @TelegraphBooks: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters: review http://tinyurl.com/nsllf8: great review
- RT @RebeccaGray: @nextread Dark Places by Gillian Flynn IS amazing – you’re completely right. Everyone should be reading her.
- RT @Book2Book: Book2Book/ Colour Kindle In Development, Says Amazon http://tinyurl.com/lwj9nc
- RT @Gollancz: Watch the brilliant book trailer for The Forest of Hands and Teeth (it scared me) on our facebook page: http://bit.ly/QHGFJ
- RT @eburypublishing: An extract of Julian Clary’s hilarious second novel Devil in Disguise is now up: http://bit.ly/E3hyb First one was fun!
- RT @Gollancz: As first lines go I AM SCROOGE’s was hard to resist: ‘MARLEY was d… Read More: http://is.gd/J7su
- RT @LizUK: RT @AliChemist: RT @HarperCollinsUK Pirate Latitudes by late Micheal Crichton be released in November!!! Yay!
- RT @BookRambler: RT @TelegraphBooks: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters: review http://tinyurl.com/nsllf8: great review
- RT @timlebbon: @nextread – Hey, I see you;re in Cardiff! Seen this? http://bit.ly/f5Hpr
- RT @Gollancz: As first lines go I AM SCROOGE’s was hard to resist: ‘MARLEY was d… Read More: http://is.gd/J7su
- RT @serpentstail: Loving this great video trailer for a book from our friends and neighbours Short Books !! http://bit.ly/rJ3VP
- RT @Guardian_Books: Books news: Haruki Murakami fans snap up latest novel 1Q84 after five-year wait http://bit.ly/M0HwR
- RT @booksmugglers: The Demon’s Lexicon is by Sarah Rees Brennan is OMFG good. I think it may well be one of the best books I read this year.
- RT @Sceptrebooks: DAILY MIRROR 4 star review for THE DEVIL’S PAINTBRUSH: "Brilliantly expansive and original tale"
- RT @roncharles: Japanese are going crazy for Murakami’s 12th novel, 1Q84. First printing 480,000. English translation? http://bit.ly/spxMQ
- RT @ChameleonRoss: Hodder launches ‘web story’ promotion http://is.gd/I1nc #publishing
- RT @bookdepository: Vampirism Goes Viral in del Toro’s The Strain — http://bit.ly/rJxKv
- RT @Sceptrebooks: http://bit.ly/FTIwF Revealing interview with Jake Arnott in Sotland on SUnday.
- RT @strangehorizons: Reviews: Two views of "UFO In Her Eyes" by Xiaolu Guo. http://bit.ly/1zDnMu
- RT @roncharles: London Evening Standard releases Ruth Padel’s e-mail against Walcott. . http://tr.im/mxAL
- RT @BethanKJones: An all-women shortlist for the Welsh Book of the Year 2009 http://tinyurl.com/rck2dq
- RT @bookmarketology: RT @TheBookseller : RHG launches ebook reader apps on Apple: http://tinyurl.com/p4h7b4
- Borders.co.uk is now offering ebooks! http://tinyurl.com/p2wqgv That makes all three major book sellers in the UK. Woot!
You can find any of the lovely people above by typing in http://www.twitter.com/ and then add the @name without the @. So @nextread would be http://www.twitter.com/nextread
Is there anything there you hand’t heard elsewhere?
Some highlights for me are – 1Q84, I AM SCROODGE, Padel’s e-mail, early praise for The Demon’s Lexicon…
Anyone on twitter that I should be following please let me know!
