Exposure Anyone?
Blog Posted:2/24/2014 3:50:00 AM
As any of you who follow Chan, or myself will know we have a dream to expand the boarders of the poetry world. To this end I have started a Twitter account and... blah, blah... (please refer to my previous blogs "Poetry and Money" and "My First Blog").
In this blog I want to invite you all to a bit of an experiment. Next Saturday morning (my time) March 1st, I want to post a number of Tweets, two of my own, and links to five poems here on Soup. One of these poems could be yours simply by you requesting me to Tweet a link to it. All rights remain yours, I am only making people aware of your poem's place here in Poetry Soup. I have done this before. My last multiple Tweet appeared to go quite well. Nobody complained about the extra exposure, and some even thanked me for bringing more reads to their work.
Twitter is not an exact science, and neither is my record keeping. I have the feeling that my Saturday mornings are a good time to catch people on the other side of the world. I suspect that my Sat mornings are most people's Fri nights. I am also working with the thought that when my Tweets get people's attention, we should make the most of their interest, while we have it. Again it seemed to work fairly well last time. But I have no numerical record of just how well it worked. I do know that my own poetry can gather up to as many as 50 reads in a day, when I Tweet a link to them. I also know that on one occasion a fellow Souper's poem only got ten new reads; he however was thankful, as he said his older poems did not usually generate that much interest. I have no way of knowing how much of this traffic comes from Twitter, and how much is internal from Soup? All I can say is the rough numbers I have looked at so far show increased readership with Twitter links. Not only is this increased readership directed at the poem Tweeted, but often people will browse your library while they are there.
So if you are interested what should you do? Please comment below with the title of the poem you wish tweeted. I will Tweet five. If there are less than five, I will Tweet all those submitted. If there are more than five, I will tweet from those who have a record of supporting me and my work. I will endeavour to Tweet the other poems at a later date, and will keep in touch with the Poets. I will comment on the poems that I Tweet to let the Poet know when it has been done.
So if you are game lets go-