Triberr and retweeting (bad ranty language)

I’m on both services, even though I’m inactive on Triberr and I barely use Twitter. (When I’m near a computer I’m generally writing or doing art, not activities I can easily do with social media windows distracting me.)

I don’t use Triberr because when I started it was buggy as hell and hard to use, and being on the receiving end meant too many obligatory social duties among ‘tribes’.

I have recently noticed A Thing, where authors still think they are hot shit when they set up Triberr to retweet some version of ‘Buy My Book!’ every 30 minutes or so.

No, please. Tweet when you have something real to share, and retweet other people’s posts if the content rocks your world. If you must tweet self-promo, please try to limit it to a few well-tagged messages per day.

Because the fastest way to make sure readers like me do not retweet your content, much less buy your books, is to make certain you’ve already alienated us with all your constant needy tweeting.

Learn from beer commercials and figure out how to make your content fun and/or worthwhile before you start mass-spamming it.