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Some time ago there was a discussion on another site about using social media. One author said she loathed Twitter, which was filled with trolls, but her publisher insisted she have an account.
My question is, can I just tweet about my books or anything I want and not read most of the responses? I figure if I don’t read most of the replies, I won't get goaded by trolls.
This will be made easier by the fact I have no interest anyway in what trolls say.
My main worry is: my novels portray Muslims in India in a sympathetic light and show them as the victims of the Hindu fundamentalusts here. Yikes, that was meant to be fundamentalIsts. But maybe I spelled it correctly the first time.
Even if I stay away from politics in my tweets, i’m sure someone who has read my books will attack me. On my writing site i’ve been called Mohammedan Lady, terrorist sympathizer, etc for saying, actually no, Muslims in India DON’T deserve to be slaughtered out of existence, and, no, Hindus should NOT chase all 180 million Muslims out of India.
The wise thing would have been to ignore the genocidal maniac who made these statements to me, but sadly, I am not always wise.
i’m also wondering how celebs manage. They probably get a ton of answers to their tweets. Surely they don't have time to reply to all of them? Or even to read all of them? Again I have little interest in reading people’s replies.
i’d like to tweet quotes from my WIPs, give teasers from my books, etc. yes ok I guess I would like to read some of the responses but only the non-crazy ones. i’m not very familiar with Twitter but I take it there is no way to ensure I can read only the sane responses? I take it I have to just block anyone who’s rude.
But its not like a blog, where as site administrator I can choose to not allow to post any reply that is rude? I wish Twitter had that facility. On the other hand, even to prevent them being posted would mean I have to waste time reading them first.
What do you think of my idea that I post whatever I like about my novels and then not read most of the replies? I suppose pretty soon people will figure I reply to only a few people but so what? If I get a hundred replies, am I really suppose to waste all morning replying to every one of them?
If they love my work, this is a way for them to keep informed of whats going on with my writing. Surely they would rather I focus on writing more of what they love rather than spend that time chatting with them.
I would read all replies only if I conducted a poll like would you like to see this character end up with that one or that other one?
Basically, is there any way to do twitter without wasting an hour a day or more on it and without having to read the tweets of racists, bigots, and genocidal maniacs? I mean, I’m sure racists, bigots, and genocidal maniacs are nice people and all that, but since I anyway encounter enough of them in India, can I not somehow avoid them on the net?
My question is, can I just tweet about my books or anything I want and not read most of the responses? I figure if I don’t read most of the replies, I won't get goaded by trolls.
This will be made easier by the fact I have no interest anyway in what trolls say.
My main worry is: my novels portray Muslims in India in a sympathetic light and show them as the victims of the Hindu fundamentalusts here. Yikes, that was meant to be fundamentalIsts. But maybe I spelled it correctly the first time.
Even if I stay away from politics in my tweets, i’m sure someone who has read my books will attack me. On my writing site i’ve been called Mohammedan Lady, terrorist sympathizer, etc for saying, actually no, Muslims in India DON’T deserve to be slaughtered out of existence, and, no, Hindus should NOT chase all 180 million Muslims out of India.
The wise thing would have been to ignore the genocidal maniac who made these statements to me, but sadly, I am not always wise.
i’m also wondering how celebs manage. They probably get a ton of answers to their tweets. Surely they don't have time to reply to all of them? Or even to read all of them? Again I have little interest in reading people’s replies.
i’d like to tweet quotes from my WIPs, give teasers from my books, etc. yes ok I guess I would like to read some of the responses but only the non-crazy ones. i’m not very familiar with Twitter but I take it there is no way to ensure I can read only the sane responses? I take it I have to just block anyone who’s rude.
But its not like a blog, where as site administrator I can choose to not allow to post any reply that is rude? I wish Twitter had that facility. On the other hand, even to prevent them being posted would mean I have to waste time reading them first.
What do you think of my idea that I post whatever I like about my novels and then not read most of the replies? I suppose pretty soon people will figure I reply to only a few people but so what? If I get a hundred replies, am I really suppose to waste all morning replying to every one of them?
If they love my work, this is a way for them to keep informed of whats going on with my writing. Surely they would rather I focus on writing more of what they love rather than spend that time chatting with them.
I would read all replies only if I conducted a poll like would you like to see this character end up with that one or that other one?
Basically, is there any way to do twitter without wasting an hour a day or more on it and without having to read the tweets of racists, bigots, and genocidal maniacs? I mean, I’m sure racists, bigots, and genocidal maniacs are nice people and all that, but since I anyway encounter enough of them in India, can I not somehow avoid them on the net?
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