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I've been building social media for two years under my author name. I have around 6,000 Twitter followers and several hundred for my blog.
My book became available for preorder a few months ago and, as far as I can tell, my social media following has resulted in about 20 sales. From what I gather, my experience is far from unusual. I mean, how many books have I bought based on seeing an author tweet, post on Facebook, or blog? I can think of exactly one. And I'm connected to thousands of authors through social media.
This sort of thing can vary a lot. Last year, a particular author quote-tweeted my pinned tweet, which had pre-order links to my first book under this pen name.
I got 120 pre-orders in 24 hours on Amazon. Before that, I'd had maybe 20 pre-orders.
I think a lot of people know me because of Twitter, and I have about 2000 followers, so not a ton. I am often able to correlate spikes in sales on KDP to tweets. I think a lot of my readers first heard about me because of Twitter.
It can depend on a lot of things.
But for me, Twitter has probably been the best at selling my books, and I don't pay anything.