On July 22, 2016 I blogged “10 Things I’ve Learned about Twitter.” Since then, I’ve learned 11 more things.

1. Twitter should come with an owner’s manual or a teenager to teach those of us in our 60s how to use it.
2. I’d still rather be working on my southern historical novel than writing Tweets.
3. Twitter continues to be maddening and takes more of my time than I want to give it.
4. Some days it seems like Twitter is really just a contest to see who can accumulate the most followers.
5. I grow weary of trying to improve my follower : follow ratio.
6. There are some things I’d like to Tweet about but I have to be conscious of my author brand.
7. The older I get, the more I believe I must show my authentic self if I’m going to project my true brand. (Yes, #7 conflicts with #6.)
8. It’s amazing how many followers from Australia I can pick up by Tweeting in the middle of the night in the USA.
9. I recently read that you have to manually cut and paste another person’s Tweet in order to retweet it – as well as adding “RT” and the original Tweet author’s username. Who knew? I thought that’s what the “ReTweet” button was for. Hence, the importance of #1 above.
10. I’d been on Twitter for months when I learned that you need a “header image” as well as a profile picture. How are you supposed to know that since. . . well, please refer to #1 above.
11. Any link you paste into the Tweet box is automatically shortened to 19 characters. I would have known this months ago if. . . well, please refer to #1 above.

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Until my next blog post in a few days, I hope you have a good book to read. If you are a writer, I hope you have productive writing time.

Janet

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