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30-Day Social Media and Writing Experiment
Did posting for 30 days nonstop make a difference?
I never listened to the advice of my college professor when he told us that to build an author platform you have to be consistent.
You had to wake up ready to write, post, tweet, and hashtag like our careers depended on it — because they do.
Being the naive writer that I was I believed that good writing would just find its audience and I wouldn’t have to bother with Twitter — I didn’t even have a Twitter — but I was wrong. After about a year of having my author platforms, they never seemed to grow past a handful of followers — most being accounts my partner had made, but didn’t want to tell me about because they said it made me so happy to run in and tell them that I had gotten another follower on some website.
Around the middle of last month, I decided that for May I was going to see if posting every single day without fail, with no excuses for not completing the task — would make a difference in my follower count, and wow — I should have listed to my old professor years ago. So learn from my mistakes and let's see what 30 days of constant posting, tweeting, and hashtagging did to my author platform.
